Re: Idleness

[Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>]

Harald Meland <Harald.Meland@usit.uio.no> writes:

> | Why use these hacks, instead of the standard XEmacs IS-IDLE argument
> | to `start-itimer', or FSFmacs `run-with-idle-timer'?  Not that the
> | above hack doesn't work, but I just don't see the point...
> | 
> | Is it a compatibility thing?
> 
> No, I guess it has to do with the gnus-demon functionality of running
> a function every N minutes _after_ emacs has been idle for X minutes.
> `run-with-idle-timer' will only let you run a function every time
> Emacs has been idle for SECS seconds, so using this would merely move
> the hacking elsewhere, not remove it.

I don't see the difference between running a function every N seconds
_after_ Emacs has been idle, and running a function every time Emacs
has been idle for N seconds.  Could you please explain it to me?

> I don't know if the way XEmacs provides idle timers would make the
> removal of the hack easy.

XEmacs itimers provide a different interface to the same
functionality.  Internally, it works by comparing current time to the
`last-input-time'.

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