From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible support for buffer local idle timers?
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:30:44 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fstz1cyj.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEcf3NweyHwUU18cTnzS589jP6bDwbCPJnNae=g7jc67FuDnnQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Campbell Barton on Mon, 20 Sep 2021 23:49:28 +1000)
> From: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 23:49:28 +1000
>
> Hi, I was wondering if buffer-local idle timers had been considered.
I'm not sure I understand how would that work. Timers run as part of
the Emacs main command loop, so they are by their nature global. How
did you imagine that a buffer-local timer would express its "locality"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-20 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-20 13:49 Possible support for buffer local idle timers? Campbell Barton
2021-09-20 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-09-20 15:50 ` Campbell Barton
2021-09-20 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 0:36 ` Campbell Barton
2021-09-21 6:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-21 6:16 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-21 10:19 ` Campbell Barton
2021-09-21 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-25 7:26 ` Campbell Barton
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