Re: Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> (with-timeout-forms
>>    (progn
>>      (bla)
>>      (bla))
>>   (1.5 (message "This is sure taking a lot of time..."))
>>   (10 (message "This is sure taking forever!")))
>
> Maybe an alternative would be a `current-state-message' global variable,
> which is then displayed once per second that Emacs is busy.

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.

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

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