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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 00:28:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d4tk22dz.fsf@jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47566942.9090208@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:02:58 +0100")

>>     > 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.

Yes, having two parallel timers with an idle timer run with a short delay
will save the desktop too often which is undesirable.  So your idea is
reasonable unless there is a more suitable solution with using just one timer.

>> 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 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.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-05 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.DEB.0.99999.0711301407250.4037@localhost.localdomain>
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 [this message]
2007-12-05 23:09                 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-05 23:41                   ` Juri Linkov
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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