From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 35400@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35400: 27.0.50; Timers repeated after waking from suspend
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 15:34:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2g6lesc.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834l6o4ok4.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:30:19 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> If we decide to consider this a feature (I guess there can be
>> circumstances where it might make sense, tho I'm not sure those would
>> really work well with the way we handle timers), I think we should
>> provide some way for users of timers to indicate whether they want to
>> use this feature or not (and I think it makes sense to default to not
>> using this feature).
>
> I think you can already control this by customizing the value of
> timer-max-repeats. It is 10 by default, so you should never see more
> than 10 repetitions, no matter how long was Emacs suspended.
Right, so the only question here is whether to change the value of that
variable (to not repeat). I think that would certainly be less
surprising, but I'm not sure whether that would break people's code or
not?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-02 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-23 16:59 bug#35400: 27.0.50; Timers repeated after waking from suspend Stefan Monnier
2019-04-23 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-02 14:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-02-02 15:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-02 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-02-03 18:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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