Re: Concurrency via isolated process/thread

[Ihor Radchenko]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> AFAIU, it is currently not possible to redisplay asynchronously.
>
> The main reason for that is that redisplay accesses the global state
> in many places, and so it needs that global state to stay put.  Wed
> already have trouble with keeping this so because we allow to run Lisp
> from various hooks called by redisplay and via :eval in the mode line.
> Quite a few bugs were caused by these, and had to be fixed by "fixing
> up" the state, like making sure the selected frame/window were not
> deleted under your feet etc.

Do you know which particular parts of the global state are necessary for
redisplay? You mentioned current_frame and current_window. What else?

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