Re: idle timer and current syntax-table

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 19.05.2017 12:12, Yuri D'Elia wrote:

> > It normally runs in whatever buffer is current in the selected window.
>
> Current when the timer is registered, or when fired?

When fired.

> I'm seeing this when setting an idle timer from a dbus method hook _and_
> the idle timer is fired when I'm a message.el buffer.

Not sure what's going on over there.

> The message buffer has a working syntax table, but this is not what I'm
> seeing in the timer func. _Another_ buffer must be current.

Try also this snippet:

(run-with-idle-timer 1 nil
  (lambda () (message "%s %s"
                      (current-buffer)
                      (eq (syntax-table)
                          emacs-lisp-mode-syntax-table))))

I evaluate it in the minibuffer. When I'm in the scratch buffer after a 
second, it prints "-scratch- t". When I switch to a different buffer 
(*Messages*), it prints "*Messages* nil".