Re: read-event in batch mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:34:23 -0500
> 
> > The "keyboard buffer" is a misnomer: that's actually the Emacs event
> > queue, where all kinds of events end up, and from which they are read
> > and processed.  Why is it a good idea to have more than one event
> > queue?
> 
> Because some events should be processed in a particular order and others
> in a different order.  They correspond to different "threads" of
> execution.  The "keyboard buffer" normally corresponds to events coming
> from the user, so their relative ordering is very important and should
> not be changed.
> 
> But D-Bus events or file-notification events may be triggered by
> processing that's completely independent/asynchronous from the user's
> actions, so they should be processed by Emacs without having to wait for
> previous user-events to be processed.

We already have process_special_events that does what you describe,
just add more events to what it handles.