From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Campbell Barton <ideasman42@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible support for buffer local idle timers?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 08:16:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmt2cv1r.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834kae1mya.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:07:09 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> I don't understand what you mean by "acting on a buffer". The timer
> function can do anything it wants in any buffer.
It is common to tie timers to buffers, though. A common pattern in
timer functions is
(lambda ()
(if (not (get-buffer buffer))
(cancel-timer timer)
(do-our-stuff...)))
and for idle timers
(lambda ()
(when (eq (current-buffer) buffer)
(do-our-stuff...)))
I think what's requested is just some syntactic sugar for these two
things.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-21 6:16 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
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 [this message]
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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