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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Yuri D'Elia <wavexx@thregr.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: idle timer and current syntax-table
Date: Thu, 18 May 2017 20:45:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10e8c197-3e26-d0ca-8610-9d091052a513@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y3tu6q4i.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org>

On 18.05.2017 20:17, Yuri D'Elia wrote:
> When setting up some function to run with an idle timer, I noticed the
> (syntax-table) is empty while calling the timer.

I've just evaluated this is the scratch buffer:

(run-with-idle-timer 1 nil (lambda () (message "%s" (syntax-table))))

And the message came with a normal, non-empty syntax table value.

> It somehow makes sense, since there's no buffer associated with it.

It normally runs in whatever buffer is current in the selected window.



  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-18 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-18 17:17 idle timer and current syntax-table Yuri D'Elia
2017-05-18 17:45 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2017-05-19  9:12   ` Yuri D'Elia
2017-05-19 12:30     ` Dmitry Gutov

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