Emacs UI usually stop responding when it performs a long task, for example, saving a file remotely. I’d be very convenient if I can use eshell or do something else at the same time.

I guess that people propose many solution. Anyway, I wonder if Emacs has any certain direction for improving multitasking support yet.

  • @vi21OP
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    12 years ago

    Does Emacs have a global interpreter lock similar to Python?

    • @ieure
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      22 years ago

      The interpreter is completely single-threaded, so there’s nothing to have a lock over.