Re: How to reset the idle timer?

<[email protected]> Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:10:27 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 09:24:53AM +0100, Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> [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?

[...]

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

The way I read it, "do as if the user just pressed a key", i.e. let
the idle time (re)start counting from "now".

Cheers
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