From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alexander Shukaev <emacs@Alexander.Shukaev.name>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Temporarily disable `timer-event-handler'
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:30:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvblqd4ycm.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14f50308-b4d2-34e8-e7bb-89822dcd9404@Alexander.Shukaev.name> (Alexander Shukaev's message of "Wed, 5 Feb 2020 02:21:37 +0100")
>> Instead we need something more specific which lets A delay B without
>> delaying other, unrelated, events.
> In a fine-grained scenario where one knows exactly which other timer (event)
> to delay, yes. I was more into temporarily inhibiting all the timers (for
> whatever reason may be needed too, e.g. what Michael faces).
I know you are, but this would be fundamentally wrong, just like it
would be wrong for your OS to let Emacs prevent all other applications
on your machine from running.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-05 1:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-02 23:25 Temporarily disable `timer-event-handler' Alexander Shukaev
2020-02-03 1:36 ` Drew Adams
2020-02-03 8:23 ` Michael Albinus
2020-02-03 14:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-03 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-04 22:30 ` Alexander Shukaev
2020-02-05 0:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-02-05 1:21 ` Alexander Shukaev
2020-02-05 1:30 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-02-05 14:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-05 15:09 ` Michael Albinus
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