From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai Grossjohann Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: problems with idle timers Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:31:45 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <86vfh8nhm6.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088679972 26950 80.91.224.253 (1 Jul 2004 11:06:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:06:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 01 13:06:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfzOJ-0000Br-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:06:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfzQ4-0006XQ-TZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:07:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BfzPo-0006SH-7n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BfzPl-0006Rk-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfzPl-0006RT-H2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BfzNF-0001eQ-C9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 07:05:01 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfyzT-0004I6-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from 139.4.37.213 ([139.4.37.213]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from kai by 139.4.37.213 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:40:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.4.37.213 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:LjeuHyNEa+Mh4Ukk96Hzivs4iCo= X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19402 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19402 Phillip Lord 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