Re: run-with-timer vs run-with-idle-timer

[Davis Herring]

> > An idle timer set for 600 seconds will run when ten minutes have
> > elapsed since the last user command was finished, even if subprocess
> > output has been accepted thousands of times within those ten minutes,
> > and even if there have been garbage collections and autosaves.
>
> Doesn't this contradict what you told me first?  I.e doesn't this
> contradict the fact that this never returns?
>
>    (catch 'done
>      (run-with-idle-timer 600 nil (lambda () (throw 'done nil)))
>      (while t (accept-process-output nil 0.1))) ; 6 thousand times
>
> or should the manual be saying "even if subprocesses output has been
> non-explictly accepted thousands of times"?

No, because whatever command you used to invoke that code (C-x C-e in 
the trivial case) doesn't finish unless and until the loop finishes.  So 
no time has yet "elapsed since the last user command was finished", 
regardless of anything about subprocesses.

Davis

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