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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 09:44:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhdd6tmg.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48946.8263041758$1582218959@news.gmane.org> (Richmond's message of "Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:15:43 +0000")

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

> I've modified the script so that it does not check the servers and I
> think I see the problem:
>
> News checked at Thu Feb 20 16:41:01 2020
> News checked at Thu Feb 20 16:46:01 2020
> News checked at Thu Feb 20 16:51:01 2020
> News checked at Thu Feb 20 17:00:41 2020
> News checked at Thu Feb 20 17:05:41 2020 [2 times]
> News checked at Thu Feb 20 17:10:41 2020 [3 times]
>
> It is checking multiple times. Why is it doing that?
>
> (defun news-check ()
>   (message "News checked at %s" (current-time-string))
>   (setq result (run-with-idle-timer (time-add (current-idle-time) 300)
> t (lambda () (news-check))))
>   )
>
> (defun tell-me-news ()
>   (interactive)
>   (setq result (run-with-idle-timer 300 t (lambda () (news-check))))
>   (message "timer result %s" result)
> )

Why two timers? Why recursive? I don't have time (or patience!) to
unpick exactly what's happening here, but I would suggest starting with
the simplest possible solution and making that work first.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-20 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-20 14:05 Richmond
2020-02-20 16:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2020-02-20 16:52   ` Richmond
2020-02-20 17:15   ` Richmond
2020-02-20 17:44     ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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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