From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Bug in new sit-for?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:48:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44BAC225.8050601@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ejwljirb.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
Chong Yidong wrote:
>> emacs.exe -batch -Q -l sit-for-bug.el
>>
>> This hangs after the displaying "calling (sit-for 1)". The first
>> (sit-for 0) does not hang.
>>
>
> (First off, it isn't hung: press enter, and the sit-for will exit.
> The problem is that `read-event' can't be interrupted by the timer in
> batch mode).
>
Why can't it be interrupted in batch?
> Anyway, the situation is a little more complicated than that, because
> the old sit-for also doesn't work properly.
>
> With the old sit-for, there is no way to interrupt in batch mode: no
> matter what key you press, including enter, the sit-for will sit for
> the entire duration.
>
Yes, that was inconvenient too.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-16 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-16 20:26 Bug in new sit-for? Lennart Borgman
2006-07-16 22:18 ` Chong Yidong
2006-07-16 22:48 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-07-17 4:25 ` Chong Yidong
2006-07-17 4:28 ` Chong Yidong
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