Re: last try (was: while-no-input)

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

"Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:

> > C-g is pretty much like an error even if not exactly.
> > Quitting is not an anomaly, but it is not normal.
> > The arrival of more input is normal.
> 
> Not while you're inside `while-no-input'.  In the cases where I want
> to use it, the arrival of user input is definitely not normal:
> the code within while-no-input should normally run to completion
> before the user hits a key.
> And the code run inside `while-no-input' (typically tramp or ange-ftp)
> usually has no idea that it might be interrupted by some keyboard input,
> so such an occurrence is (for the running code) definitely not normal.

Exactly!!


> 
> > Please don't ask me to spend more time on this.
> > I have lots of other work to do, and I've made the decision.
> 
> But this decision is just wrong.

I agree with Stefan.

Richard, if you don't want to spend time thinking more about this,
please leave the decision to Stefan who has spend a lot of time on
this, and IMO has the right approach here.

> PS: Kim, if you want this feature, you're probably better off
>     doing the remaining work, because I'm fed up with this arguing.

I really think we need while-no-input, but while I can understand
Stefan's approach, I simply don't understand what Richard wants to be
done here, so I'm not the right person to ask to do that.

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Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk