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28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: rpluim <at> gmail.com, visuweshm <at> gmail.com, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, bugs <at> gnu.support, 50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:42:43 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>,  rpluim <at> gmail.com,
>   50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  bugs <at> gnu.support,  visuweshm <at> gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:07:38 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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?

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