Re: [Feature Request] Hope Emacs can provide an async version of `url-copy-file'

[Narendra Joshi]

stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com> writes:

> Because sometimes network is not good, so downloading might suspend Emacs for 
> a
> long time. So I'm trying to implement an async downloading of `org-attach-url'
> in org-mode. But it require async version of `url-copy-file', write redundant
> code is not useful. Also I'm not able to implement that. So I send email for
> feature request here.
>
> Thanks in advance.

Would using threads work for your use case given that it's network
I/O. For example, this downloads a large file without blocking Emacs:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(make-thread (lambda () (url-copy-file "https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin"; 
"/tmp/test.txt")))
#+end_src

Best,
-- 
Narendra Joshi