Re: advice needed for multi-threading patch

[Ken Raeburn]

On Sep 22, 2009, at 10:24, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > Yeah.  I just wonder why nobody has done it and whether it would  
> > not be
> > a better approach.
>
> IIUC people do it all the time, tho not with another Emacs process:  
> with
> an hexl process, a shell process, an openssl process, ...
> Emacs currently is not very good at using stdin/stdout so running an
> inferior Emacs process is poorly supported.

I've sometimes thought a command-line option to provide a REPL (read- 
eval-print loop) interface would be handy.  Either directly in Emacs,  
or via the client/server interface... much like interactive emacs lisp  
mode, but purely on the command line.

Ken