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> 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"?