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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Ingo Lohmar <i.lohmar@gmail.com>
Cc: 22595@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22595: 25.1.50; Wishlist: There should be a way to list timers
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:16:39 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn7qarzs.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9hiht4w.fsf@acer.localhost.com> (Ingo Lohmar's message of "Tue, 09 Feb 2016 15:10:07 +0100")

Ingo Lohmar <i.lohmar@gmail.com> writes:

> Why is this a good idea at all?  Timers are always an implementation
> detail, not a user-level feature, as far as I am concerned.  We neither
> have a UI for working with all overlays or text properties of a buffer,
> have we?

Reductio ad absurdum isn't very useful as an argumentation technique.

I have often wanted to examine (and cancel) certain timers that are out
of control.  Inspecting them without a buffer like this isn't easy.  

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no





  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-09 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-08  6:15 bug#22595: 25.1.50; Wishlist: There should be a way to list timers Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-08 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-09  0:02   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09  2:36     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-09 14:10     ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-02-09 14:16       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-02-09 15:16         ` Drew Adams
2016-02-09 17:13           ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-02-09 17:37             ` Drew Adams
2016-02-09 17:02         ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-02-09 17:31       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-09 18:32         ` Eli Zaretskii

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