bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy

[Stefan Kangas]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> No, because this will change a long-standing behavior (of waiting
>> indefinitely).  But we can add a new flag --timeout=NNN to let people
>> specify a timeout if they want.

Hmm, is that so bad though?  I'm not sure I see what problem it could
cause.  Do people actually want and rely on the indefinite waiting?

> I don't think a --timeout parameter will be useful here, though --
> nobody is going to type "emacsclient --timeout 10 -nw".

I often do things like

   alias emacsclient="emacsclient --timeout 10"

so I think such a flag would still be useful.