[vile] Detecting if vile is idle

[Chris Green]

I want to detect if vile has been idle for a period (i.e. five minutes
or so) while editing a file.  Would it be possible to hijack the
autocolor variable and the autocolor-hook to do this?

It will only be for one specific case where I am using vile via a
wrapper script and syntax highlighting isn't required.

If I set autocolor to 300000 (five minutes) will autocolor-hook get
called after five minutes of idleness?  I can then do what I want by
'setv $autocolor-hook <some new script>'.

Can I set autocolor to such a large value (64-bit Linux machine)?

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Chris Green