GNU bug report logs - #50849
28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jean Louis <bugs <at> gnu.support>

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 14:28:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch

Found in version 28.0.50

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, bugs <at> gnu.support, 50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when
 being busy
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:44:30 +0200

>>>>> On Fri, 02 Sep 2022 15:39:16 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
    >> Cc: bugs <at> gnu.support,  50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
    >> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 14:28:18 +0200
    >> 
    >> What would be a reasonable timeout here?  Say...  five seconds?

    Eli> Too short, IMO.  I'd say 10 (and expose this as a Lisp variable, so
    Eli> whoever is unhappy about the default can do what they want).

10 seconds by default, but with a command line arg, for those times
when youʼve spiked the load average to 1000 😀. And I donʼt see how
exposing it as a Lisp variable helps: the timeout would be on the
emacsclient side, not the Emacs side.

Robert
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