From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnus makes emacs lose response Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:39:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87slijekhg.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159144823 27939 80.91.229.2 (25 Sep 2006 00:40:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:40:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 25 02:40:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GReVw-0001ZN-S2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:40:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GReVw-0003pR-8T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:40:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GReVk-0003pC-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GReVj-0003oy-Re for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GReVj-0003of-KR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.4] (helo=tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GRea2-0005Uu-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([70.55.82.201]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060925003950.ENUC27612.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost>; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:39:50 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 20848) id F3E5C9CE0; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:39:50 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Chong Yidong In-Reply-To: <87slijekhg.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri\, 22 Sep 2006 16\:04\:27 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60181 Archived-At: > This behavior is documented in the Lisp Reference manual: > Emacs binds `inhibit-quit' to `t' before calling the timer > function, because quitting out of many timer functions can leave > things in an inconsistent state. This is normally unproblematical > because most timer functions don't do a lot of work. Indeed, for a > timer to call a function that takes substantial time to run is > likely to be annoying. > However, the result is that when the `gnus-demon' timer function calls > accept-process-output, it can't be interrupted. > I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is. Anyone? `with-local-quit'. The manual should be changed to point to it, Stefan