From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ignacio Casso <ignaciocasso@hotmail.com>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 54371@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54371: 29.0.50; read-char does not reset idle timer in some cases
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:34:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ee35lk8r.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PAXPR06MB7760E20F16BB6428F82D3C6FC60E9@PAXPR06MB7760.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (message from Ignacio Casso on Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:45:33 +0100)
> From: Ignacio Casso <ignaciocasso@hotmail.com>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 54371@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 18:45:33 +0100
>
> However, I still think that if not a bug, this is at least inconsistent
> and probably deserving a footnote in the relevant section of the Emacs
> Lisp manual
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Idle-Timers.html).
I think accessing current-idle-time from an idle time is inherently
problematic: when the idle timer runs and receives input, whether or
not Emacs is idle is ambiguous in principle. IOW, code which does
that is splitting hair.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-13 19:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-12 23:27 bug#54371: 29.0.50; read-char does not reset idle timer in some cases Ignacio Casso
2022-03-13 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-13 10:48 ` Ignacio Casso
2022-03-13 15:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-03-13 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-13 17:45 ` Ignacio Casso
2022-03-13 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-03-13 21:58 ` Ignacio Casso
2022-04-01 18:22 ` Ignacio Casso
2022-04-01 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-07 11:42 ` Ignacio Casso
2022-04-08 6:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-11 6:42 ` Ignacio Casso
2022-04-11 11:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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