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
next prev parent 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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