From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Idle Time to Poll Serve
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 08:41:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878skx8b3z.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21295.3531461366$1582207560@news.gmane.org> (Richmond's message of "Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:05:40 +0000")
Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:
> I have devised this script to set up idle timers to poll the news
> server. But it seems to cause emacs to hang after a while. If I use gtk
> I can get it to respond with ctrl-g, but running in a terminal,
> i.e. konsole or lxterminal, it is more difficult. What's wrong? This is
> placed in .gnus
>
> (defun news-check ()
> (ignore-errors
> (gnus-group-get-new-news)
> )
> (setq result (run-with-idle-timer (time-add (current-idle-time) 300) t (lambda () (news-check))))
> )
Why is this function recursive? That's bound to be a bad idea. I would
refactor to remove the recursion, and to only start another check after
the last one has completed.
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2020-02-20 14:05 Richmond
2020-02-20 16:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2020-02-20 16:52 ` Richmond
2020-02-20 17:15 ` Richmond
2020-02-20 17:44 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-02-20 18:25 ` Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english
2020-02-20 22:02 ` Richmond
2020-02-21 7:35 ` Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english
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