Re: [gareth.jones@stud.man.ac.uk: Re: pop3-read-response not robust in the presence of timers]

[kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     One could also approach this from the opposite side -- slapping (the
>     equivalent of) `save-buffer-excursion' around the timer functions
>
> That would be one way to implement it for all the functions that can
> run timers, including accept-process-output, read-event and
> read-key-sequence.

I think Lars' suggestion was to slap the functions that are run from
the timers, instead of the functions that run the timers.

So you take a sharp look at the foo function which is run from a
timer.  You see that foo doesn't need to buffer changed, so you slap
it.  Bad foo!  8-)
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