[8984] in Athena Bugs
Re: emacs/edsc spin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Calvin Clark)
Mon Feb 17 16:22:03 1992
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 92 16:21:43 -0500
From: Calvin Clark <ckclark@mit.edu>
To: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: marc@Athena.MIT.EDU, honor@Athena.MIT.EDU, jefft@Athena.MIT.EDU,
Reply-To: ckclark@mit.edu
> The other thing you can do is to try the version of discuss.el which is
> found in /mit/discuss/source/edsc/discuss.el. That's the version which
> I use, and it is much less prone to these sorts of errors. (Basically,
> the version in the Athena release attempts to do a lot of asynchronous
> processing to do the cache management, and Emacs Lisp just isn't very
> good at dealing with asyncronous processing. The new version uses the
> new cache management code which is built into edsc, and so is much more
> robust.)
I forgot to mention this in my original post, but this problem also
occurs with the verison of discuss in the sipb locker, which I use
almost exclusively. The are currently not many differences between the
sipb locker and discuss locker versions, and I don't see any which would
make a difference in this case.
> This new version of discuss.el should probably go into the 7.3
> release.
I agree, of course.
Any further comments (if not bug related) I will send to the discuss
development list.
-Calvin
