Final (?) fix for gnus-demon.el

Final (?) fix for gnus-demon.el

[Paul Stodghill]

In 0.79, the demon still runs jobs, even when Emacs is not idle. Here's the
fix.

--- rgnus-0.79/lisp/gnus-demon.el.orig	Tue Jan  7 12:40:05 1997
+++ rgnus-0.79/lisp/gnus-demon.el	Tue Jan  7 13:34:55 1997
@@ -184,10 +184,14 @@
 	(unless (zerop time)
 	  (setcar (nthcdr 1 handler) (decf time)))
 	(and (zerop time)		; If the timer now is zero...
-	     (or (not (setq idle (nth 2 handler))) ; Don't care about idle.
-		 (and (numberp idle)	; Numerical idle...
-		      (< idle gnus-demon-idle-time)) ; Idle timed out.
-		 idle)			; Or just need to be idle.
+	     ;; Test for appropriate idleness
+	     (progn
+	       (setq idle (nth 2 handler))
+	       (cond
+		 ((null idle) t)	; Don't care about idle.
+		 ((numberp idle)	; Numerical idle...
+		  (< idle gnus-demon-idle-time)) ; Idle timed out.
+		 (t (< 0 gnus-demon-idle-time)))) ; Or just need to be idle.
 	     ;; So we call the handler.
 	     (progn
 	       (funcall (car handler))


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Re: Final (?) fix for gnus-demon.el

[Wesley.Hardaker]

>>>>> "PS" == Paul Stodghill <stodghil@CS.Cornell.EDU> writes:

PS> In 0.79, the demon still runs jobs, even when Emacs is not idle. Here's the
PS> fix.

Thanks Paul...  This was one of the more annoying bugs I've ever had
to deal with (my gnus-demon runs take 5-10 mins to complete).

Wes

Re: Final (?) fix for gnus-demon.el

[Paul Stodghill]

>>>>> "Wesley" == Wesley Hardaker <Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch> writes:

    Wesley> Thanks Paul... This was one of the more annoying bugs I've ever
    Wesley> had to deal with (my gnus-demon runs take 5-10 mins to
    Wesley> complete).

Yow! What does it do, make coffee for you? :-)

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Paul Stodghill <stodghil@cs.cornell.edu>
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Re: Final (?) fix for gnus-demon.el

[Wesley.Hardaker]

>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Stodghill <stodghil@CS.Cornell.EDU> writes:

>>>>> "Wesley" == Wesley Hardaker <Wesley.Hardaker@sphys.unil.ch> writes:
Wesley> Thanks Paul... This was one of the more annoying bugs I've ever
Wesley> had to deal with (my gnus-demon runs take 5-10 mins to
Wesley> complete).

Paul> Yow! What does it do, make coffee for you? :-)

Nope, just expires all my nnml groups and checks for new news, but on
a really slow sun this can take a while...  My alpha arrives in 2-3
weeks!  Yay!  Yay!  Yay!!!

Wes