bug#64866: 30.0.50; Emacsclient block for 2 seconds when error is raised from command

[Jim Porter]

On 7/26/2023 9:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:48:38 -0700
> > Cc: 64866@debbugs.gnu.org, yikai@z1k.dev
> > From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> >
> > On 7/26/2023 11:48 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Why did you think it should?  According to its documentation it only
> > > affects minibuffer-message.  The 2-sec delay in the above case is done
> > > by an explicit call to sit-for with a hard-coded argument of 2 sec.
> > > See server-return-error.
> >
> > Thanks for the pointer to this code. Looking at it, it doesn't seem easy
> > to avoid this delay without causing the problems that you've mentioned.
>
> Yes, see bug#63629 for the problems that code attempts to solve.

Thanks. I'll take a look at that in more detail in the next week or so, 
since at this point I'm just curious as to whether there's a way to get 
the best of both worlds. (At minimum, maybe I can add a regression test.)