From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Blink cursor changes, possible W32 breakage. Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:05:47 +0300 Message-ID: <83txjt15hw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83oba22ymd.fsf@gnu.org> <6B4F86F0-164D-4CBE-8CD2-9BC9326451C4@swipnet.se> <8361w93k8e.fsf@gnu.org> <871u6x4we0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <58D8CF7D-C157-4D48-93B4-2EFFAA4AAF61@swipnet.se> <8338rd2q1h.fsf@gnu.org> <534E99D7-CC13-4C8D-A80B-EC00995F741A@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1374080762 4239 80.91.229.3 (17 Jul 2013 17:06:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 17 19:06:02 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1UzVAv-0007cm-SR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 19:06:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56508 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzVAv-0002i8-B0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:06:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48121) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzVAo-0002hy-M9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:05:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzVAl-0003tV-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:56627) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzVAl-0003sY-0A; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MQ300100BCNWH00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:05:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MQ3001LEBHGPL70@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:05:41 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <534E99D7-CC13-4C8D-A80B-EC00995F741A@swipnet.se> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:161981 Archived-At: > From: Jan Dj=E4rv > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:29:46 +0200 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, > miles@gnu.org >=20 > >> We can't know what other timers do, in general. Maybe they are = supposed to run some Elisp in the background and/or when the frame ha= s no focus. In contrast, we know very well what blinking timers are = supposed to do, so we have control over those. > >=20 > > But if you stop one timer, but leave the other N running, what di= d you > > accomplish, exactly, in terms of allowing the laptop stop using > > battery power and perhaps swap Emacs out of RAM? >=20 > In the default configuration, i.e. starting Emacs, editing files an= d so on, the only repeating timer there is is the blinking timer, the= re are no N other timers. So for the majority of setups, this is a w= in. I don't think it's a majority, not even close. The only situation that will certainly win here is "emacs -Q", but I wonder whether we should optimize that one.