From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: try-this-for ? Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:56:44 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86d1277u37.fsf@zoho.com> References: <86lggw6vtn.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1516244333 26342 195.159.176.226 (18 Jan 2018 02:58:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 02:58:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 18 03:58:49 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ec0PI-0005Dd-Gv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Jan 2018 03:58:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54903 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ec0RI-0004gF-7x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:00:28 -0500 X-Received: by 10.28.239.13 with SMTP id n13mr545516wmh.30.1516244205838; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 18:56:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!m70no214330wma.0!news-out.google.com!74ni1808wme.0!nntp.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: zRXoCvQ6k9fneBfYPnB6lQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZlqYPouzmR7DsZc3ymgLWxmvEUo= Mail-Copies-To: never X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221651 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115768 Archived-At: 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