From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Doug Lewan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Timer questions Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 18:55:56 +0000 Message-ID: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9852FD8696@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> References: <87a9givfvt.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <3969D2A8-7D79-414C-B8FE-4E5097AC5073@dppd.eu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386096976 16843 80.91.229.3 (3 Dec 2013 18:56:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 18:56:16 +0000 (UTC) To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 03 19:56:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vnv8w-0008IL-Le for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:56:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vnv8w-0002Bc-CH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:56:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53152) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vnv8f-0002BE-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:56:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vnv8X-0008Au-Ca for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:56:04 -0500 Original-Received: from webmail.shubertorg.com ([207.246.209.200]:59593) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vnv8X-0008AS-8k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:55:57 -0500 Original-Received: from dakiya1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) by DAKIYA1.pegasus.local ([172.16.208.201]) with mapi id 14.01.0438.000; Tue, 3 Dec 2013 13:55:57 -0500 Thread-Topic: Timer questions Thread-Index: AQHO8FlMxkey+txXMEefOL5aJyobew== In-Reply-To: <3969D2A8-7D79-414C-B8FE-4E5097AC5073@dppd.eu> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.0.21.202] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 7 or 8 X-Received-From: 207.246.209.200 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94813 Archived-At: On occasion (probably a few times a week) I get an error like the following= : Debugger entered--returning value: (0 0 500000 0) time-add((0 0 500000 0) (0 0 0 0)) timer-relative-time((21149 10968 408673 700000) 0.5 0 nil) timer-inc-time([t 21149 10968 408673 0.5 blink-cursor-timer-function nil = nil 700000] 0.5 0) timer-event-handler([t 21149 10968 408673 0.5 blink-cursor-timer-function= nil nil 700000]) Here are some things that I have found: * Ultimately this comes from the value of blink-cursor-timer in frame.el. * timer-list (admittedly, checked after the above error) has only one timer= , the one for displaying time. * On a fresh emacs no timer for blink-cursor-timer-function is set, and bli= nk-cursor-timer is nil. * The last call, (time-add '(0 0 500000 0) '(0 0 0 0)), does /not/ signal a= n error. Does anyone know why I might be getting this? (Given the last point, it see= ms especially mysterious to me.) Thanks. ,Douglas Douglas Lewan Shubert Ticketing (201) 489-8600 ext 224 Statistics: The science of figuring out exactly how wrong you probably are.