Re: How to reset the idle timer?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 11:12:56AM +0100, Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > > 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".
> 
> Maybe.  Then I would like to know: To solve which kind of problem, and
> why is doing this a good solution to this problem?

Note that my reading doesn't have to be right; much less can I answer
your second (good) question :-)

Cheers
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t

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