Subject: Re: bug#51196: 29.0.50; python.el eldoc problems

From: Augusto Stoffel <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 22:30:41 +0200

On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 at 23:05, Carlos Pita <[email-masked]> wrote:

> - Apparently there is no timeout for non-native completions, as in the
> case of C-c C-f described above this can freeze emacs, but in this
> case it doesn't even have to be manually triggered.

Is it even possible, technically, to add a timeout for non-native
completion?  I think this would require sending a break signal to cancel
the completions computation, which seems scary.

I thought you had a good argument for disabling native completion by
default, but this might speak against it.