From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: problems with idle timers
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:49:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86n02kne0c.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86vfh8nhm6.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net
Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de> writes:
> Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>
>> So good so far. This has pretty much the behaviour I want. But there
>> is problem. While the timer works mostly as I want, and stops when I
>> do anything to Emacs, I notice that it sometimes gets stuck. So I'll
>> go and make some tea, and the idle timer will not have started
>> again. If I do something with emacs and then let it idle generally the
>> timer will start again happily.
>
> This appears to be the result of passing t for REPEAT: it will run
> the idle timer only once for each time Emacs is idle.
>
> But I don't grok the docs, so I don't know what happens when passing
> nil.
Ah, now I understand. Hm. Passing nil for REPEAT is even worse, as
it will run the function only once. Hm.
Kai
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-01 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-17 9:34 problems with idle timers Phillip Lord
2004-07-01 10:31 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-07-01 11:49 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
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