From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: run-with-timer vs run-with-idle-timer Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 21:10:25 +0300 Message-ID: <83bmdopuni.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tvrgd972.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1525890684 3592 195.159.176.226 (9 May 2018 18:31:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 18:31:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 09 20:31:20 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fGTrz-0000ot-RE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 20:31:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58412 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGTu7-0002R2-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 14:33:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52905) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGTXf-0004j1-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 14:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGTXb-0006Rn-30 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 14:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44683) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGTXa-0006Rh-Vj; Wed, 09 May 2018 14:10:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4609 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fGTXa-0000ED-DY; Wed, 09 May 2018 14:10:14 -0400 In-reply-to: <87tvrgd972.fsf@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28g?= =?utf-8?B?VMOhdm9yYQ==?= on Wed, 09 May 2018 18:34:41 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225169 Archived-At: > From: João Távora > Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 18:34:41 +0100 > > Hi > > And this never returns? > > (catch 'done > (run-with-idle-timer 1 nil (lambda () (throw 'done nil))) > (while t (accept-process-output nil 0.1))) > > Is it because accept-process-output means emacs isn't really idle? More accurately, because Emacs is never idle for more than 0.1 sec, and you requested the timer to run after 1 sec of idleness.