From c0d333629efe0eba235f62d47578a73c7821c385 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Stubenschrott <stubenschrott@gmx.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:22:19 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] simple fix, that we don't echo message while not in the main
 thread. This fixes :set editor=unknown_editor to not hang firefox

---
 content/ui.js | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/content/ui.js b/content/ui.js
index 2c56085a..d1be2bb6 100644
--- a/content/ui.js
+++ b/content/ui.js
@@ -305,6 +305,12 @@ vimperator.CommandLine = function () //{{{
         // vimperator.echo uses different order of flags as it omits the hightlight group, change v.commandline.echo argument order? --mst
         echo: function (str, highlightGroup, flags)
         {
+            // if we are modifing the GUI while we are not in the main thread
+            // Firefox will hang up
+            var threadManager = Cc["@mozilla.org/thread-manager;1"].getService(Ci.nsIThreadManager);
+            if (!threadManager.isMainThread)
+                return false;
+
             var focused = document.commandDispatcher.focusedElement;
             if (focused && focused == commandWidget.inputField || focused == multilineInputWidget.inputField)
                 return false;