From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Calling Lisp from undo.c's record_* functions Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:51:25 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83r3jpc2of.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9kkbz6k.fsf@russet.org.uk> <838u5wbmvu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1447779105 3678 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2015 16:51:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Phillip Lord To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 17 17:51:36 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyjTj-00007B-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:51:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59469 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyjTi-0000xM-Kc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:51:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33921) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyjTe-0000x4-Jz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:51:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyjTd-0000Cl-NG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:51:30 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:40884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZyjTZ-0000Aa-QM; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:51:25 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: A0BbFgA731xV/++ZWxdcgxCEAoVVu0CDY4NoBAICgTw6EwEBAQEBAQGBCkEFg10BAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSINwjPIwEBAQEGAQEBAR6LOoUFB4QtBYwwnkuKCSOEFiCCeAEBAQ X-IPAS-Result: A0BbFgA731xV/++ZWxdcgxCEAoVVu0CDY4NoBAICgTw6EwEBAQEBAQGBCkEFg10BAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDSSINwjPIwEBAQEGAQEBAR6LOoUFB4QtBYwwnkuKCSOEFiCCeAEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.13,465,1427774400"; d="scan'208";a="178488636" Original-Received: from 23-91-153-239.cpe.pppoe.ca (HELO pastel.home) ([23.91.153.239]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 17 Nov 2015 11:51:25 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 2917B627BD; Tue, 17 Nov 2015 11:51:25 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <838u5wbmvu.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2015 18:40:05 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:194654 Archived-At: > Would it work to have a non-idle timer that is started once at > startup, and then never shut down, and have its job be put on some > list that the timer will examine? I ruled that out early on in the design cycle because I think it's wrong for an application to have such constant background activity. Stefan