Timer code normally turns off C-g so that you won't interrupt it by accident. (After all, you can't predict when the timer code will be running.) If ECB is going to do something potentially slow from a timer, it should probably bind inhibit-quit to nil around that code, after displaying a message in the echo area to inform the user what is happening.
Alternatively, it could use start-process to run ls asychronously as a way to find out whether the directory is empty. The process sentinel could take action based on whether the output was empty. Then you wouldn't have any such problem. I suggest forwarding this to the ECB developers. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
