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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: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, bugs <at> gnu.support, visuweshm <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 14:31:32 +0300

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org,  visuweshm <at> gmail.com,  stefankangas <at> gmail.com,
>   bugs <at> gnu.support,  50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2022 10:47:23 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 08 Sep 2022 19:02:50 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:
> 
>     >> So if we set DEFAULT_TIMEOUT to 0, people who do nothing get no
>     >> messages, and people who do --timeout get messages. I think that
>     >> satisfies Eliʼs concern about compatibility
> 
>     Eli> Yes, I think so.
> 
>     >> (Iʼd even go so far as not setting the timeout at all if itʼs not
>     >> requested. Why yes, I am paranoid about changing old code).
> 
>     Eli> I agree.
> 
> So this simplifies the code considerably, and in fact removes the
> whole retry thing completely.

I agree that the code is much easier to follow after these changes.

Thanks.

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