From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: desktop.el: autosave? Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:12:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <8763zjfe0v.fsf@jurta.org> <87mysridxt.fsf@jurta.org> <47550419.2080503@gmx.at> <47566942.9090208@gmx.at> <87d4tk22dz.fsf@jurta.org> <47572FA4.4080207@gmx.at> <873augwvzf.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196954018 3300 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2007 15:13:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:13:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 06 16:13:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0IPy-0000Xt-UZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:13:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0IPh-0006pw-Tt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:13:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0IPI-0006Yv-3c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:12:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0IPG-0006XD-KN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:12:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0IPG-0006X3-90 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:12:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0IPG-0001N8-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:12:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0IPF-0002Ju-EQ; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:12:53 -0500 In-reply-to: <873augwvzf.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:41:08 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84794 Archived-At: 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. What standard timers do now is a basic and useful behavior. It would not be right to replace that with something more complex which can be implemented on top of the existing behavior.