From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: 36707@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: bug#36707: [PATCH] Signal user-error on duplicate package refresh
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 20:16:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfw3qjle.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874l3j11v4.fsf@tcd.ie> (Basil L. Contovounesios's message of "Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:14:55 +0100")
"Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie> writes:
> Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
>
>> In the "*Packages*" buffer (M-x package-list-packages), if I hit "r" many times
>> it will try to initiate more refreshes even if the first one has not finished
>> yet. This is unnecessary and potentially confusing.
>>
>> This patch makes it check if there is already an refresh in progress and signal
>> a user-error if there is one.
>
> Would it not be possible/better to discard the existing refresh and
> start a new one, instead of signalling an error? This would help
> e.g. when a refresh hangs for whatever reason.
Not sure if it's better, supposing the user is hitting "r" repeatedly,
that just interrupts the pending refreshes, preventing any progress. I
would expect hanging to be cancelled by a timeout anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-09 0:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-17 18:02 bug#36707: [PATCH] Signal user-error on duplicate package refresh Stefan Kangas
2019-07-17 18:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-07-18 21:14 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-08-09 0:16 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-08-12 0:35 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-18 18:18 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-08-22 17:04 ` Stefan Kangas
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