bash TMOUT for emacs

bash TMOUT for emacs

[Dan Jacobson]

Gentlemen, at the gala festival I have left emacs running and
forgotten on a terminal that I can't even remember what room is in.
Well, if emacs had a timeout setting, like bash's TMOUT, then I
wouldn't need to worry that some perpetrator could molest my files.

       TMOUT  If  set  to a value greater than zero, the value is
              interpreted as the number of seconds  to  wait  for
              input  after issuing the primary prompt.  Bash ter-
              minates after waiting for that number of seconds if
              input does not arrive.

Re: bash TMOUT for emacs

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

jidanni@debian.linux.org.tw (Dan Jacobson) writes:

>        TMOUT  If  set  to a value greater than zero, the value is
>               interpreted as the number of seconds  to  wait  for
>               input  after issuing the primary prompt.

you can try:

(defun save-buffers-kill-emacs-when-idle (tmout)
  (interactive "nKill emacs when idle (seconds): ")
  (setq save-buffers-kill-emacs-when-idle-timer
        (run-with-idle-timer
          n tmout t
          (lambda ()
            (save-buffers-kill-emacs t))))

this sets the variable `save-buffers-kill-emacs-when-idle-timer'
which you can use to cancel the timer later, should you find your
computer again after galaing.

thi

Re: bash TMOUT for emacs

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:

>           n tmout t

this is wrong.  it should read:

>           tmout t

thi

Re: bash TMOUT for emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
 > Gentlemen, at the gala festival I have left emacs running and
 > forgotten on a terminal that I can't even remember what room is in.
 > Well, if emacs had a timeout setting, like bash's TMOUT, then I
 > wouldn't need to worry that some perpetrator could molest my files.
 >
 >        TMOUT  If  set  to a value greater than zero, the value is
 >               interpreted as the number of seconds  to  wait  for
 >               input  after issuing the primary prompt.  Bash ter-
 >               minates after waiting for that number of seconds if
 >               input does not arrive.

Does this work?

(when (getenv "TMOUT")
   (run-with-idle-timer (getenv "TMOUT") nil 'kill-emacs))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers