Re: emacsclient in elisp

[Stefan Monnier]

> Btw: in batch mode, read-from-minibuffer returns when it sees a
> newline, so you could still use the above if you'd process each
> incoming line, and then issued another read-from-minibuffer call only
> when the processing was done.

The next line may not come from another half-hour, or even "for ever" if
the other side is waiting for our (asynchronous) answer before sending the
next command.

> So the situation we have doesn't look too bad to me.

There are cases where it's usable, but there are cases where it's
a non-starter.


        Stefan