From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: ignaciocasso@hotmail.com, 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 18:43:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pmmpls5g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lexduc8w.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:02:23 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 54371@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:02:23 +0100
>
> Ignacio Casso <ignaciocasso@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > However I can't find the proper function to use in place of
> > <<reset-idle-timer-function>>. Do you know of a way to reset the idle
> > timer programmatically, without actual user input?
>
> Doesn't seem to be anything reachable from Lisp land. Adding a subr
> that just calls timer_start_idle would be trivial, though.
I think we should first understand the use case better. For starters,
I don't think I understand why an idle timer function should want to
call read-char with a time-out. It is a strange thing to do, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-13 16:43 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 [this message]
2022-03-13 17:45 ` Ignacio Casso
2022-03-13 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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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