Re: Can't interrupt directory_files_internal run from timer-event-handler

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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