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

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bugs <at> gnu.support, Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when
 being busy
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 11:48:50 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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.
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