From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: desktop.el: autosave?
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:41:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873augwvzf.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47572FA4.4080207@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:09:24 +0100")
>>>Wouldn't it be sufficient to have one idle timer which triggers
>>>auto-saving only if some timeout has elapsed since the last auto-save
>>>of the desktop?
>>
>> It seems this is not possible with idle timers because they use timeout
>> elapsed since the last user input, not the last time they run.
>
> Ahh no. I meant using an extra variable which records the last autosave
> date. Whenever the routine triggered by the idle timer detects that the
> period (one hour ...) has elapsed (by comparing that variable's value
> with the present time) it does autosave and reset that variable. This
> would only fail when an idle time starts before the autosave timeout has
> expired and terminates long after that.
Yes, this is not a reliable solution since an idle timer may fail to run
at the requested time. I think your first idea is better.
I wonder why standard timers don't do something like that: run a function
after a long timeout (e.g. several minutes) but only if Emacs is idle for
a few seconds. This looks like an useful behavior.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-11-30 23:35 ` desktop.el: autosave? Richard Stallman
2007-12-01 0:35 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-01 23:41 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-03 22:57 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-04 7:39 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-05 2:57 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-05 9:02 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-05 22:28 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-05 23:09 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-05 23:41 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2007-12-06 15:12 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-06 2:11 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-06 23:29 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-04 16:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-06 14:58 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-06 15:38 ` tomas
2007-12-06 15:47 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-06 23:28 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-06 23:44 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-07 0:03 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-07 2:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-09 20:35 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-10 0:27 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-10 0:35 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-10 0:50 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-10 0:59 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-10 1:10 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-10 3:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-10 22:01 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-10 23:55 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-11 0:10 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-11 0:23 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-11 0:42 ` Reuben Thomas
2013-04-10 1:36 ` Reuben Thomas
2013-04-10 7:05 ` Juri Linkov
2013-04-10 10:57 ` Reuben Thomas
2013-04-11 8:29 ` Juri Linkov
2013-04-11 11:04 ` Reuben Thomas
2013-04-27 20:57 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-10 22:02 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-10 22:12 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-10 22:16 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-10 23:57 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-11 0:02 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-11 0:23 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-11 0:48 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-11 19:01 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-12 0:50 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-12 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-12 23:59 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-14 10:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-07 2:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-07 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-03 21:14 ` Reuben Thomas
2007-12-03 22:57 ` Juri Linkov
2007-12-06 14:56 ` Reuben Thomas
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