Re: Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff

[Stefan Monnier]

> Sure, that would also handle the "tell the user what's going on" use
> case, and we could have a convenience macro `with-current-state-message'
> that would simply be an `unwind-protect' to clear out the state message.

Yes, the advantage is that the message can be displayed even if we're in
the middle of uninterruptible Elisp code.

> But `with-timeout-form' would be kinda generally useful, I think.  :-)

IIUC you can implement that in Elisp, right?


        Stefan