Subject: bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:42:43 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],
>   [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:07:38 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > With the current code on master, we will output
> > messages that we previously didn't, and that could potentially break
> > someone's scripts.
> 
> That is a potential problem, but I think the advantage (not seemingly
> hanging without output) is worth it -- especially if the message is on
> stderr.

For you, that advantage overrides the potential incompatibility, but
for someone else the balance could be the other way around.

Why not leave this as an opt-in feature, for those who really need it?
After all, shell aliases are available to save extra typing.  So
what's the downside?