;; Timeout hackery. ;; Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to ;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. (defun with-timeout-timer (tag) ;; I'm pretty sure the condition-case isn't really necessary here, ;; but it doesn't hurt. (condition-case () (throw tag nil) (no-catch nil))) ;;;###autoload (defmacro with-timeout (seconds-and-timeout-forms &rest body) "Usage: (with-timeout (seconds &rest timeout-forms) &rest body) This is just like progn, but if the given number of seconds expires before the body returns, then timeout-forms are evaluated and returned instead. The body won't be interrupted in the middle of a computation: the check for the timer expiration only occurs when body does a redisplay, or prompts the user for input, or calls accept-process-output." (let ((seconds (car seconds-and-timeout-forms)) (timeout-forms (cdr seconds-and-timeout-forms))) (` (let* ((with-timeout-tag (make-symbol "_with_timeout_")) (with-timeout-timeout (add-timeout (, seconds) 'with-timeout-timer with-timeout-tag))) (unwind-protect (let ((value (catch with-timeout-tag (prog1 (progn (,@ body)) (setq with-timeout-tag nil))))) (if with-timeout-tag (progn (,@ timeout-forms)) value)) (disable-timeout with-timeout-timeout)))))) (put 'with-timeout 'lisp-indent-function 1) ;;;###autoload (defun yes-or-no-p-with-timeout (timeout prompt &optional default-value) "Just like yes-or-no-p, but will time out after TIMEOUT seconds if the user has not yes answered, returning DEFAULT-VALUE." (with-timeout (timeout (message (concat prompt "(yes or no) Timeout to " (if default-value "Yes" "No"))) default-value) (yes-or-no-p prompt))) ;;;###autoload (defun y-or-n-p-with-timeout (timeout prompt &optional default-value) "Just like y-or-n-p, but will time out after TIMEOUT seconds if the user has not yes answered, returning DEFAULT-VALUE." (with-timeout (timeout (message (concat prompt "(yes or no) Timeout to " (if default-value "Yes" "No"))) default-value) (y-or-n-p prompt)))