Re: How to reset the idle timer?

Stefan Monnier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.help
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> 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.
> That is fascinating!  Is there a chance this suggestion will be
> implemented soon?

I don't know anyone who's working on it, no.

> I don't see any drawbacks (of course, I probably miss something).

Well, it's a change, so it would inevitably introduce breakage unless
it comes packaged as a new function or new argument values that make it
clear which behavior is requested.


=== Stefan
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