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

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Message #56 received at 50849 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>,
 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: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 12:59:46 +0200

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

> Hmm, is that so bad though?  I'm not sure I see what problem it could
> cause.  Do people actually want and rely on the indefinite waiting?

If you're controlling Emacs programmatically, you don't want commands to
semi-randomly fail just because the Emacs is busy with the previous
command.

> I often do things like
>
>    alias emacsclient="emacsclient --timeout 10"
>
> so I think such a flag would still be useful.

It could be useful, but I think the number of people that would do
something like this is minuscule, so it's marginal.

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