From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: "Phil Sainty" <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 14820@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14820: 24.3; elisp manual: How to write good idle timer worker functions?
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:52:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd2qoiucq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50216.121.99.89.166.1373470285.squirrel@mail.orcon.net.nz> (Phil Sainty's message of "Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:31:25 +1200 (NZST)")
>> Currently, Emacs doesn't support such "background tasks" well.
>> Documentation could help, but I think it's not really worth the
>> trouble. Better come up with a package that provides support
>> for it.
> Well surely you'd agree that writing such a package is going to be
> more much difficult without documentation? That is essentially the
> problem I ran into here, after all.
No, I think that we don't know the solution, so writing the doc is just as
hard because we don't know what the doc should say until we've figured
out how to write the code.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-11 22:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-08 13:25 bug#14820: 24.3; elisp manual: How to write good idle timer worker functions? Phil Sainty
2013-07-10 8:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-07-10 15:31 ` Phil Sainty
2013-07-11 13:39 ` Daimrod
2013-07-13 6:38 ` Phil Sainty
2013-07-11 22:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-01-26 17:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-23 20:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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