bug#50849: 28.0.50; Proposal for Emacs daemon to signal when being busy

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,  stefankangas@gmail.com,
>   50849@debbugs.gnu.org,  bugs@gnu.support,  visuweshm@gmail.com
> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:19:40 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 08 Sep 2022 17:15:09 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:
> 
>     >> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>     >> Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com,  rpluim@gmail.com,  50849@debbugs.gnu.org,
>     >> bugs@gnu.support,  visuweshm@gmail.com
>     >> Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:11:32 +0200
>     >> 
>     >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>     >> 
>     >> > ??? We already added --timeout, so what do you mean by that?
>     >> 
>     >> I don't expect anybody to type --timeout either, but I can see that it
>     >> might be useful when scripting, for instance.  --give-me-feedback, on
>     >> the other hand, would never be used.
> 
>     Eli> I think there's some misunderstanding: I wasn't taking about anything
>     Eli> called --give-me-feedback.
> 
> So if we set DEFAULT_TIMEOUT to 0, people who do nothing get no
> messages, and people who do --timeout get messages. I think that
> satisfies Eliʼs concern about compatibility

Yes, I think so.

> (Iʼd even go so far as not setting the timeout at all if itʼs not
> requested. Why yes, I am paranoid about changing old code).

I agree.