From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin rudalics Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: desktop.el: autosave? Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:02:58 +0100 Message-ID: <47566942.9090208@gmx.at> References: <8763zjfe0v.fsf@jurta.org> <87mysridxt.fsf@jurta.org> <47550419.2080503@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196845467 9916 80.91.229.12 (5 Dec 2007 09:04:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 09:04:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 05 10:04:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IzqBI-0006QM-FH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:04:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzqB1-0005Gp-UU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:04:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzqAG-0004ae-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:03:32 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzqAE-0004Yv-4U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:03:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzqAD-0004Yj-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:03:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzqAC-0005U3-Ob for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:03:29 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Dec 2007 09:03:27 -0000 Original-Received: from N732P003.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [62.47.35.99]) [62.47.35.99] by mail.gmx.net (mp047) with SMTP; 05 Dec 2007 10:03:27 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14592706 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/hO/clCmzhf6SJOmxvrl4+3kChwj9PVBy/JNaPQ3 E/CpCw2Sgy/Opj User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84721 Archived-At: > > I'm not sure an idle timer is good for this feature. I want to auto-save > > the desktop at quite long time intervals (an hour or so), but usually > > Emacs is not idle for this time. So it seems we need a non-idle timer. > > Two timers? The non-idle one triggers (after an hour or so) an idle one. > > That's a strange idea. It occurred to me because Juri wanted to auto-save the desktop only every hour. Hence, I'd first wait for an hour and then until Emacs has become idle for at least five minutes. > My idea is that they both trigger saving. Wouldn't it be sufficient to have one idle timer which triggers auto-saving only if some timeout has elapsed sine the last auto-save of the desktop?