Re: Strange emacsclient behaviour during use of isearch

[David Kastrup]

"Juanma Barranquero" <address@hidden> writes:

> On 3/11/07, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Use of Emacsclient should not interfere with an isearch!
>
> Why not? Emacsclient usually interrupts what Emacs is doing (try doing
> "sleep 5; emacsclient myfile.txt" from a shell while you work on
> Emacs).
>
> Certainly, emacsclient terminating the isearch is the behavior I would
> expect (and so does the user who reported the bug...)

I agree.  Whether or not isearch is terminated or suspended possibly
should be made dependent on the setting of
enable-recursive-minibuffers: this is the setting that indicates
whether the user can be considered comfortable with suspended
minibuffer usage.

It definitely is a mistake for Emacs to do nothing visibly:
emacsclient is not something called asynchronously, but as a direct
result of a user action and/or requiring user attention.

-- 
David Kastrup