[Geany] coroutines under geanylua

[Enrico Tröger]

On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:04:18 -0500, Timothy wrote:

Hey,


>I guess I misunderstood coroutines then. Apparently Lua only has
>"asymmetric coroutines" typically usable as generators? I did see
>http://www.lua.org/pil/9.4.html which talks about emulating
>multi-threading by managing several coroutines which always yield,
>though I suspect the dispatcher's execution would still block Geany
>with that approach. Either way, thanks Jeff and Lex.
>
>While not the most elegant solution, I'll script a wrapper around the
>commands which will be responsible for alerting the user once the task
>has completed. Then I'll invoke the wrapper from the plug-in with
>geany.launch( ).

I don't know at all but Geany provides utils_spawn_async() which
executes a command asynchronous, i.e. Geany won't block during
execution. Not sure whether it's available in the geanylua plugin but
in case not, it probably could be added.


Regards,
Enrico

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