From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
To: Ali Pang <ali_pang@hotmail.com>
Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Timeout for reading file across network
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:56:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinQgYSw4V9E6rOGAqCitus+LkEs32SHwghDWNqw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29604481.post@talk.nabble.com>
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I'm no Emacs expert, but from a quick look at the documentation for
with-timeout it looks like you should use:
(with-timeout (4)
(load remote-.emacs))
What actually happens when you do that? Nothing at all? Waits longer than
four seconds?
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Ali Pang <ali_pang@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to load my .emacs from a remote location if possible. The problem
> is I'm on windows, and the time-out before recognizing that the file is
> unavailable is ridiculously long (minutes). Thus if the file is
> unavailable,
> emacs blocks for a long time at startup. I've tried basically doing
>
> (if (with-timeout (4)
> (file-exists-p remote-.emacs))
> (load remote-.emacs))
>
> but I guess with-timeout does not do what I want. Any ideas about what I
> could use instead?
> --
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2010-09-02 13:43 Timeout for reading file across network Ali Pang
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2010-09-02 20:45 ` Stefan Monnier
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