From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <contovob@tcd.ie>
Cc: philipk@posteo.net, 51094@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51094: Check if run-with{-idle, }-timer needs to create a timer
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 14:13:10 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831r4vzs55.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6jjn6af.fsf@tcd.ie> (bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)
> Cc: 51094@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2021 11:46:00 +0100
> From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Philip Kaludercic [2021-10-08 09:36 +0000] wrote:
>
> > I have seen a few packages use run-with-timer or run-with-idle-timer,
> > where the SECS parameter is configurable with a user option. When this
> > timer doesn't repeat itself and it makes sense to set SECS to 0 when you
> > want something to run immediately, I don't think it makes sense to
> > create a timer object.
>
> IIUC, the semantics of SECS=0 (alias nil) is not the same as eager
> funcall, because timer functions are intended to be run asynchronously
> in a separate command loop. So often what is meant by "now" is e.g. "as
> soon as I quit the current active minibuffer".
Right, and that's one more aspect of this change to consider. It
could very well change the behavior in incompatible ways, so I wonder
whether we really should make this change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-08 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-08 9:36 bug#51094: Check if run-with{-idle,}-timer needs to create a timer Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-08 10:46 ` bug#51094: Check if run-with{-idle, }-timer " Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-08 10:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-08 11:14 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-08 11:33 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-08 12:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-08 11:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-10-08 11:29 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-10-08 11:13 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-08 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
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