* Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:

[`with-timeout' in XEmacs]

  > Hm.  It seems to be the same in Emacs and in XEmacs.  So it appears
  > that XEmacs has no alternative implementation for doing the same job
  > -- else I'd guess that the compat macro would use it.

  > So one approach would be to declare with-timeout a new feature
  > instead of a compat thing.

Well XEmacs uses itimer, with-timeout uses timer.  That's why it's a
compat thing.  What's needed is an itimer equivalent of
`with-timeout'. 

  > But I might be misunderstanding, and the with-timeout implementation
  > in XEmacs is the same as the one in Emacs for a different reason.

Yeah, the person who added it to the XEmacs fsf-compat package was too
lazy to implement it using XEmacs API's. :-)

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