From: Narendra Joshi <narendraj9@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>,
Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: run-with-idle-timer Doc string Question
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 13:05:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHCj4z7_osRM9bbd+PkjzpcZNu+w=2c=3QQ_5Tpn2Z1ePZi7JA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b818ae6-3db1-470c-b60d-a4ccd8a33f41@default>
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It took me a long time to arrive at the fact that it is only possible to
know that Emacs has already been idle for SECS seconds when we are
executing a callback for a run-with-idle-timer call with a delay arg of
SECS seconds. The docstring could state this in more detail.
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, 23:25 Drew Adams, <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > I think the part that makes it a bit confusing is
> > that we are talking about calling run-with-idle-timer
> > with a lower value of SECS from an already executing
> > callback for another run-with-idle-timer.
>
> Gee, what could possibly be confusing about that? ;-)
>
> (Especially if we don't say that explicitly.)
>
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-21 17:06 run-with-idle-timer Doc string Question T.V Raman
2020-08-21 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 19:46 ` T.V Raman
2020-08-21 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-21 20:49 ` Narendra Joshi
2020-08-21 21:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-08-22 11:05 ` Narendra Joshi [this message]
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