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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Support for explicitly resetting the idle timer?
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 11:01:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <835yse0y70.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEcf3NxqSPvotQmLUWN4-o27N7wLpAWaLtWbhVrMvp7Vd3Ju-w@mail.gmail.com> (message from Campbell Barton on Sat, 27 Nov 2021 19:42:15 +1100)

> From: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 19:42:15 +1100
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> > The cleanest solution in this case would be to call timer_stop_idle if
> > Emacs is executing a command, no matter how it was invoked.  In fact,
> > I'm surprised that we don't stop idle timers when track-mouse invokes
> > commands: it sounds like a bug we should fix.
> 
> Not sure if this would solve my case (is there some formal definition
> of what is meant by a command?).
> I'm changing the scroll position using `set-window-vscroll` - so I'm
> not sure if that counts as a command.

Which code invokes set-window-vscroll, and what triggers that code?

> As a workaround it may be possible to define a dummy command that does
> nothing but reset the idle timer.

Btw, what do you mean by "reset" here?  timer_stop_idle has a
counterpart, timer_resume_idle.  Would the resumption work under your
proposal, and if so, how?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-27  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-27  7:54 Support for explicitly resetting the idle timer? Campbell Barton
2021-11-27  8:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27  8:42   ` Campbell Barton
2021-11-27  9:01     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-27  9:14       ` Campbell Barton
2021-11-27 10:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 10:21           ` Campbell Barton
2021-11-27 10:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 11:16               ` Campbell Barton
2021-11-27 11:33                 ` Eli Zaretskii

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