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0 pointssquiddev4y ago0 comments

If you're working on very slow network connections, or the network just dies entirely, it's not uncommon for Emacs just to hang entirely. You then have to kill Emacs from another terminal. At the time I was running exwm (an Emacs window manager), which made the whole thing even more painful. Emacs is powerful, but polish is not its strong point.

That said, this was a few years ago now. Things may have improved in 26.1 when threads were introduced, and async got even easier.

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taeric4y ago

I can concur that a slow connection is bad. It shouldn't hang entirely, as C-g should still get you response back. That said, it will hiccup bad and a save needs a round trip, regardless.

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taeric4y ago

I can concur that a slow connection is bad. It shouldn't hang entirely, as C-g should still get you response back. That said, it will hiccup bad and a save needs a round trip, regardless.

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