Re: How to reset the idle timer?

Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to tell Emacs "start counting the idle time from now", even if
> the user didn't do anything.  How to do that?
>
> I asked an LLM, and it told me to say
>
> (setq unread-command-events '(t))
>
> However, it had troubles explaining why I should use `(t)'.  The docs
> for `unread-command-events' didn't help much, either.  By trial and
> error I found out that
>
> (setq unread-command-events nil)
>
> is better in the sense that it doesn't pollute `view-lossage'.  Is that
> a correct way?  Is that the best way?

Your subject says "How to reset the idle timer".  "Timer" or "Time"?
What do you want to do, and for what purpose?

Michael.
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