Re: How to test whether any code runs after same command invocation?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> Example: I use some code that propertizes any dired buffer in a way that
> the mouse tooltip over any directory shows the directory contents.
> Since that can take a long time for huge directory hierarchies, I want
> to use a timeout.  But if you have marked files you operate on, the code
> is run multiple times when refreshing the files' lines, so the timeout

Not sure I understand.  Do you use after-change-functions, by any chance?
Could you use jit-lock instead?

> I currently do this by (defvar counter 0) and adding a fun to
> post-command-hook that increases the counter.

That sounds like the standard hack, yes.

> Is there a cleverer way?

In general, not that I know.
You can also use wall-time instead of a counter incremented in
post-command-hook.


        Stefan