Re: Proposal for a new mechanism for delayed stuff

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:20:31 +0100 Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote: 

LI> The idea I had yesterday was to make this totally general:

 (with-timeout-forms
    (progn
      (bla)
      (bla))
   (1.5 (message "This is sure taking a lot of time..."))
   (10 (message "This is sure taking forever!")))

LI> A la condition-case and stuff, although here we have forms that are
LI> run if the main form takes too long.  So after 1.5 seconds we trigger
LI> the first, and after 10 we trigger the second.

I like it.

LI> And perhaps it would also be possible to have a special thing in the
LI> timeout forms that would conclude the entire main form?  Like `return'
LI> or something.

You could use 'finally?

Ted