Re: master b34f9a44393: Apply remote-file-name-access-timeout in desktop.el and recentf.el

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:29:39 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
    >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
    >> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2023 17:41:36 +0200
    >> 
    >> >>>>> On Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:42:43 +0200, Michael Albinus 
<michael.albinus@gmx.de> said:
    >> 
    >> 
    Michael> But this is theory. If a connection is already established, a small
    Michael> value of even 1 second would suffice. OTOH, if you need the initial
    Michael> connection phase (f.e. during Emacs startup), with a slow 
connection to
    Michael> the remote host, 60 seconds might be too short. And think about
    Michael> multi-hops, where the initial connection phase could last longer.
    >> 
    Michael> That's why I've decided for the nil value, which is also the 
equivalent
    Michael> to the current behavior - no timeout. But this is not set in 
stone, if
    Michael> people believe another value is godd, then let's try it.
    >> 
    >> Iʼm all for retaining backwards compatibility, but when the behaviour
    >> weʼre retaining is 'hang forever', I think we should consider putting
    >> in a default timeout.

    Eli> But the behavior we retain isn't hanging: by default desktop.el
    Eli> doesn't save and doesn't restore buffers that visit remote files, so
    Eli> users will not see any effect of this timeout, unless they enable
    Eli> restoration of such buffers.

OK, thatʼs less severe.

    Eli> It might be a good idea to mention this new option in the doc string
    Eli> of desktop-files-not-to-save.  Here, done.

Iʼve been inspired to reword some documentation as well :-)

Robert
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