From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
To: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About idle timers
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 19:08:13 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130404190813.815990ee1d4dc89d336e0b0f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nfmbr4k.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk>
On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:07:55 +0100
phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) wrote:
> Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com> writes:
> > In (info "(elisp) Idle Timers"):
> > An idle timer set for 600 seconds will run when ten minutes have
> > elapsed since the last user command was finished, even if subprocess
> > output has been accepted thousands of times within those ten minutes,
> > and even if there have been garbage collections and autosaves.
> > Will the idle timer run if Emacs isn't idle after 600 seconds?
> No. Emacs has to be idle for at least 600 seconds or the idle timer will
> not run. Idle timers are very useful for running things "in the
> background" that don't interrupt the user. You do have to use them
> carefully though, because once the idle timer starts to run, it will
> continue to run to completion. So, if you want to do anything
> computational intensive, you need to check constantly to see if their is
> user input pending.
Ah, I see, thank you.
--
Xue Fuqiao
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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2013-04-04 7:59 About idle timers Xue Fuqiao
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