Re: How to reset the idle timer?

>> Here is my use case.  When I close my laptop (not sure what it's
>> technically called - sleep? hibernation?), and then open it again (say,
>> after a few hours), I'd like Emacs to set up an idle timer to do
>> something, say, 1 minute after I stop pressing any buttons.  I have
>> a (not great, but working) way to run some Elisp after I open my laptop,
>> but when I set up an idle timer then, it runs immediately, since the
>> idle time is several hours.  I'd like to reset that idle time so that my
>> idle timer will really run after 1 minute of idleness - so, 1 minute
>> /after/ opening the laptop if I don't do anything else, and later if
>> I do something in Emacs within 60 seconds of opening my laptop.
>
> When the laptop is open, call run-with-timer to set up a normal
> (non-idle) timer that runs 1 min after that, and in the timer function
> of that timer start an idle timer.

This is actually an ideal use-case for Daniel Colascione's recent
suggestion to change `(run-with-idle-timer N ...)` to mean
that N starts counting *now* rather than starting counting when the
current idle period started.


=== Stefan