bug#14820: 24.3; elisp manual: How to write good idle timer worker functions?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Currently, Emacs doesn't support such "background tasks" well.
>> Documentation could help, but I think it's not really worth the
>> trouble.  Better come up with a package that provides support
>> for it.
> Well surely you'd agree that writing such a package is going to be
> more much difficult without documentation? That is essentially the
> problem I ran into here, after all.

No, I think that we don't know the solution, so writing the doc is just as
hard because we don't know what the doc should say until we've figured
out how to write the code.


        Stefan