From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14820: 24.3; elisp manual: How to write good idle timer worker functions? Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:52:11 -0400 Message-ID: References: <51DABDE6.10904@orcon.net.nz> <50216.121.99.89.166.1373470285.squirrel@mail.orcon.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373583188 4100 80.91.229.3 (11 Jul 2013 22:53:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:53:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 14820@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Phil Sainty" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 12 00:53:09 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UxPjY-0000aO-9a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Jul 2013 00:53:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35840 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxPjX-0000aD-Kg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:53:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50430) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxPjT-0000a6-80 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:53:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxPjS-0000Sw-G9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:53:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54464) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UxPjS-0000Sh-Di for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:53:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UxPjR-0007kY-NW for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:53:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:53:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14820 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 14820-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14820.137358315229743 (code B ref 14820); Thu, 11 Jul 2013 22:53:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14820) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Jul 2013 22:52:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48780 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UxPiy-0007je-7f for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:42901) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UxPiw-0007jX-O0 for 14820@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:52:31 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id r6BMqEUZ024128; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:52:20 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 50857AE0CC; Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:52:11 -0400 (EDT) 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)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV4636=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9362 : core <4636> : streams <998204> : uri <1474435> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:76250 Archived-At: >> 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