From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: jit-lock timer etc. Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:20:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44E9E5F5.8000400@gmx.at> <87fyfpq5wf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <44EA3222.9050405@gmx.at> <44EC49AD.2080001@gmx.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156396934 30356 80.91.229.2 (24 Aug 2006 05:22:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:22:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 24 07:22:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GG7fQ-0007AH-EZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:22:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GG7fP-0005uZ-QE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:22:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GG7dy-0004yO-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GG7dy-0004xc-6X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GG7dx-0004xR-VY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:20:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GG7lx-0003Sf-Bn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GG7dx-0004yv-6m; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:20:41 -0400 Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:58790 Archived-At: I can hardly imagine emacs being idle for more than 2^28 seconds, so it seems safe to simplify it to return a cons (SECS . USECS) [see patch below] I don't want to do that, because it would be incompatible with other time values. I'd rather people use time-to-seconds to convert. However, returning the value in floating point might be a good method. But if we do that, we should call it float-idle-time.