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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists.caml/news/@rum.cs.yale.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] toplevel is hanging
Date: 24 Apr 2001 12:28:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lae56xnw6.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104241552.RAA22012@ilt.fhg.de>

>>>>> "wester" == wester  <wester@ilt.fhg.de> writes:
>> 2.  Fix emacs.  The documentation for process-send-region says "If the
>> region is more than 500 characters long, it is sent in several bunches. 
>> This may happen even for shorter regions. Output from processes can arrive
>> in between bunches."  They did this to fix this exact process interlock
>> problem.  Of course, this is not what the source code does.  The source
>> only breaks up _lines_ that are longer than a certain length, but the
>> problem is the regions we're sending have short lines, but lots of newlines.
>> If the code actually did what the docs say then this wouldn't have
>> happened.  I did not feel like messing with the heinous emacs source
>> (this function is particularly beautiful :), so I did #1.

I can't remember seeing this particular bug-report, but I'll look into it.
Of course, there's a third solution (the one used in sml-mode) which
is for tuareg to use a temporary file.


	Stefan
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-24 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-23 13:16 wester
2001-04-23 15:55 ` Mattias Waldau
2001-04-23 16:09   ` David McClain
2001-04-23 19:23 ` Chris Hecker
2001-04-24 15:52   ` wester
2001-04-24 16:28     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2001-04-25  6:49       ` wester
2001-04-25  7:03         ` Michel Schinz
2001-04-26 13:23   ` Xavier Leroy

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