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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Julien Cubizolles <j.cubizolles@free.fr>
Subject: Re: org-clock idle time in pgtk Emacs
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 09:17:10 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zg9wpgtl.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29c1766c-89cb-6898-f11d-5886144dff27@gmail.com>

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>>> +(defvar org-pgtkidle-exists-p
>>> +  ;; Check that org-clock-pgtkidle-program-name exists.  But don't do that on DOS/Windows,
>>> +  ;; since the command definitely does NOT exist there, and invoking
>>> +  ;; COMMAND.COM on MS-Windows is a bad idea -- it hangs.
>>> +  (and (null (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)))
>>> +       (eq 0 (call-process-shell-command
>>> +              (format "command -v %s" org-clock-pgtkidle-program-name)))
>>> +       ;; Check that x11idle can retrieve the idle time
>>> +       ;; FIXME: Why "..-shell-command" rather than just `call-process'?
>>> +       (eq 0 (call-process-shell-command org-clock-pgtkidle-program-name))))
>> 
>> We may as well resolve this FIXME since we are at it.
>> Instead of the awkward combination of two `call-process-shell-command'
>> prompts, we can simply use `executable-find' + `call-process'.
>
> Is there a reasonable way to avoid code duplication? I agree that 
> `executable-find' may be better since `org-clock-pgtkidle-program-name' 
> might contain spaces or shell specials causing issues with current code.

I do not think that we should avoid code duplication here.
pgtk and x11 is principally different. The fact that the same code works
for them is rather a co-incidence. It is unlikely that a new
window-system is going to use the same code again. And de-duplicating
jut two functions is not worth it.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-02  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-24  8:32 org-clock idle time in pgtk Emacs Julien Cubizolles
2022-05-24 10:27 ` Tim Cross
2022-05-25  6:38 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-01-31 16:24   ` Julien Cubizolles
2023-02-01 13:15     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-01 15:45       ` Max Nikulin
2023-02-02  9:17         ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-02-03  5:55       ` Julien Cubizolles
2023-02-03 12:17         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-02-03 15:07           ` Max Nikulin
2023-02-04 11:04             ` Ihor Radchenko

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