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Re: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handle
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handler |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Aug 2005 19:07:45 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) |
> Timer code normally turns off C-g so that you won't interrupt it
> by accident. (After all, you can't predict when the timer code
> will be running.) If ECB is going to do something potentially
> slow from a timer, it should probably bind inhibit-quit to nil
> around that code, after displaying a message in the echo area
Indeed. Except that just binding inhibit-quit to nil may not quite do
what we want: it should use with-local-quit or something equivalent.
Stefan
Re: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handler,
Stefan Monnier <=