From: Kai Grossjohann <kai@emptydomain.de>
Subject: Re: problems with idle timers
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:31:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86vfh8nhm6.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vfhdtah6ji.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk
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.
Kai
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-01 10:31 UTC|newest]
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2004-06-17 9:34 problems with idle timers Phillip Lord
2004-07-01 10:31 ` Kai Grossjohann [this message]
2004-07-01 11:49 ` Kai Grossjohann
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