From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Should `cancel-timer' use `delete' instead of `delq'?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:22:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3bb6mdru.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMKEBICLAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:20:43 -0700")
> (defvar foo-timer
> (progn ; Cancel to prevent ~duplication.
> (when (boundp 'foo-timer) (cancel-timer foo-timer))
> (run-with-idle-timer 2 t 'foo))
> "Timer used to foo whenever Emacs is idle.")
The traditional way to do something like the above is:
(defvar foo-timer nil)
(define-minor-mode foo
"blala"
:toto 1 :titi 0
(when foo-timer
(cancel foo-timer)
(setq foo-timer nil))
(when foo-mode
(setq foo-timer (run-with-idle-timer 5 t 'foo-fun))))
-- Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-05 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-05 0:14 Should `cancel-timer' use `delete' instead of `delq'? Drew Adams
2006-09-05 1:44 ` Miles Bader
2006-09-05 15:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-05 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-05 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-09-05 17:36 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-05 20:46 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-09-05 21:24 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-06 1:11 ` Miles Bader
2006-09-06 2:09 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-06 2:38 ` Miles Bader
2006-09-06 6:31 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-06 6:48 ` Miles Bader
2006-09-06 7:29 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-06 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-06 15:27 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-06 6:38 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-05 21:56 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-06 0:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-06 19:05 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-05 19:13 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-09-05 19:22 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-06 8:49 ` Richard Stallman
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