Re: gnus makes emacs lose response

[Stefan Monnier]

> This behavior is documented in the Lisp Reference manual:

>    Emacs binds `inhibit-quit' to `t' before calling the timer
>    function, because quitting out of many timer functions can leave
>    things in an inconsistent state.  This is normally unproblematical
>    because most timer functions don't do a lot of work.  Indeed, for a
>    timer to call a function that takes substantial time to run is
>    likely to be annoying.

> However, the result is that when the `gnus-demon' timer function calls
> accept-process-output, it can't be interrupted.

> I'm not sure what the best way to handle this is.  Anyone?

`with-local-quit'.
The manual should be changed to point to it,


        Stefan