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* s/template.h: Explain the relative significance of the SIGIO and INTERRUPT_INPUT macros.
author Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
date Mon, 10 May 1993 00:35:06 +0000
parents d7cacd332230
children 6489c9da34b9
files src/s/template.h
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/src/s/template.h	Mon May 10 00:34:31 1993 +0000
+++ b/src/s/template.h	Mon May 10 00:35:06 1993 +0000
@@ -50,8 +50,13 @@
 /* Emacs can read input using SIGIO and buffering characters itself,
    or using CBREAK mode and making C-g cause SIGINT.
    The choice is controlled by the variable interrupt_input.
+
    Define INTERRUPT_INPUT to make interrupt_input = 1 the default (use SIGIO)
 
+   Emacs uses the presence or absence of the SIGIO macro to indicate
+   whether or not signal-driven I/O is possible.  It uses
+   INTERRUPT_INPUT to decide whether to use it by default.
+
    SIGIO can be used only on systems that implement it (4.2 and 4.3).
    CBREAK mode has two disadvatages
      1) At least in 4.2, it is impossible to handle the Meta key properly.
@@ -62,8 +67,7 @@
    Another method of doing input is planned but not implemented.
    It would have Emacs fork off a separate process
    to read the input and send it to the true Emacs process
-   through a pipe.
-*/
+   through a pipe. */
 
 #define INTERRUPT_INPUT