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From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: try-this-for ?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:56:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86d1277u37.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7534.1516233062.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

John Mastro wrote:

> There's `with-timeout' in timer.el, however
> (from the docstring):
>
> The timeout is checked whenever Emacs waits
> for some kind of external event (such as
> keyboard input, input from subprocesses, or
> a certain time); if the program loops without
> waiting in any way, the timeout will not
> be detected.

Right, I suspected that... so what I ask for
perhaps cannot be done because of the very
architecture? There is no preemption,
only collaboration?

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-18  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-17 21:04 try-this-for ? Emanuel Berg
2018-01-17 23:50 ` John Mastro
2018-01-18  2:08 ` Bob Newell
     [not found] ` <mailman.7535.1516241346.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18  2:52   ` Emanuel Berg
     [not found] ` <mailman.7534.1516233062.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18  2:56   ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-01-18  9:27     ` tomas
     [not found]     ` <mailman.7540.1516267658.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18 12:00       ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-18 12:03         ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-18 12:11           ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-18 12:43         ` tomas
2018-01-18 15:14           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-01-18 15:23             ` tomas
     [not found]         ` <mailman.7544.1516279427.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18 12:59           ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-18 13:16             ` tomas
     [not found]             ` <mailman.7546.1516281409.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-18 22:44               ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-19  8:38                 ` tomas
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.7613.1516351115.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-19  8:55                   ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-19  9:25                     ` tomas
     [not found]                     ` <mailman.7614.1516353949.27995.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-01-19 10:47                       ` Emanuel Berg
2018-01-19 11:22                         ` tomas

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