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Timeout for reading file across network

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Ali Pang — 1283436438Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:07:18 +0000 (UTC) 
Hi,

I'd like to load my .emacs from a remote location if possible. The problem
is I'm on windows, and the time-out before recognizing that the file is
unavailable is ridiculously long (minutes). Thus if the file is unavailable,
emacs blocks for a long time at startup. I've tried basically doing

(if (with-timeout (4) 
      (file-exists-p remote-.emacs))
  (load remote-.emacs))

but I guess with-timeout does not do what I want. Any ideas about what I
could use instead?
PJ Weisberg — 1283519147Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:05:47 +0000 (UTC) 
I'm no Emacs expert, but from a quick look at the documentation for
with-timeout it looks like you should use:

(with-timeout (4)
     (load remote-.emacs))

What actually happens when you do that?  Nothing at all?  Waits longer than
four seconds?On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:43 AM, Ali Pang  wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to load my .emacs from a remote location if possible. The problem
> is I'm on windows, and the time-out before recognizing that the file is
> unavailable is ridiculously long (minutes). Thus if the file is
> unavailable,
> emacs blocks for a long time at startup. I've tried basically doing
>
> (if (with-timeout (4)
>      (file-exists-p remote-.emacs))
>  (load remote-.emacs))
>
> but I guess with-timeout does not do what I want. Any ideas about what I
> could use instead?
> --
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