From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to test whether any code runs after same command invocation?
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:27:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4n41zsag.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh36kl1f.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Fri, 14 Feb 2014 12:09:48 +0100")
> Example: I use some code that propertizes any dired buffer in a way that
> the mouse tooltip over any directory shows the directory contents.
> Since that can take a long time for huge directory hierarchies, I want
> to use a timeout. But if you have marked files you operate on, the code
> is run multiple times when refreshing the files' lines, so the timeout
Not sure I understand. Do you use after-change-functions, by any chance?
Could you use jit-lock instead?
> I currently do this by (defvar counter 0) and adding a fun to
> post-command-hook that increases the counter.
That sounds like the standard hack, yes.
> Is there a cleverer way?
In general, not that I know.
You can also use wall-time instead of a counter incremented in
post-command-hook.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-14 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-14 11:09 How to test whether any code runs after same command invocation? Michael Heerdegen
2014-02-14 14:27 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-02-14 15:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-02-14 17:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-14 17:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-02-14 20:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-15 10:46 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-02-14 18:41 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-02-15 10:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-02-15 12:25 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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