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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 11:48:50 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> No, because this will change a long-standing behavior (of waiting
> indefinitely).  But we can add a new flag --timeout=NNN to let people
> specify a timeout if they want.

I don't think a --timeout parameter will be useful here, though --
nobody is going to type "emacsclient --timeout 10 -nw".

So I think an informational message (like previously mentioned) is the
best we can do here.