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author | Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> |
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date | Wed, 08 Jul 1992 19:14:35 +0000 |
parents | fec3f9a1e3e5 |
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;;; timer.el --- run a function with args at some time in future ;; Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to ;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. (defvar timer-process nil) (defvar timer-alist ()) (defvar timer-out "") (defvar timer-dont-exit nil ;; this is useful for functions which will be doing their own erratic ;; rescheduling or people who otherwise expect to use the process frequently "If non-nil, don't exit the timer process when no more events are pending.") ;;;###autoload (defun run-at-time (time repeat function &rest args) "Run a function at a time, and optionally on a regular interval. Arguments are TIME, REPEAT, FUNCTION &rest ARGS. TIME, a string, can be specified absolutely or relative to now. REPEAT, an integer number of seconds, is the interval on which to repeat the call to the function." (interactive "sRun at time: \nNRepeat interval: \naFunction: ") (cond ((or (not timer-process) (memq (process-status timer-process) '(exit signal nil))) (if timer-process (delete-process timer-process)) (setq timer-process (start-process "timer" nil "timer") timer-alist nil) (set-process-filter timer-process 'timer-process-filter) (set-process-sentinel timer-process 'timer-process-sentinel) (process-kill-without-query timer-process)) ((eq (process-status timer-process) 'stop) (continue-process timer-process))) ;; There should be a living, breathing timer process now (let ((token (concat (current-time-string) "-" (length timer-alist)))) (send-string timer-process (concat time "\001" token "\n")) (setq timer-alist (cons (list token repeat function args) timer-alist)))) (defun timer-process-filter (proc str) (setq timer-out (concat timer-out str)) (let (do token error) (while (string-match "\n" timer-out) (setq token (substring timer-out 0 (match-beginning 0)) do (assoc token timer-alist) timer-out (substring timer-out (match-end 0))) (cond (do (apply (nth 2 do) (nth 3 do)) ; do it (if (natnump (nth 1 do)) ; reschedule it (send-string proc (concat (nth 1 do) " sec\001" (car do) "\n")) (setq timer-alist (delq do timer-alist)))) ((string-match "timer: \\([^:]+\\): \\([^\001]*\\)\001\\(.*\\)$" token) (setq error (substring token (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1)) do (substring token (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2)) token (assoc (substring token (match-beginning 3) (match-end 3)) timer-alist) timer-alist (delq token timer-alist)) (ding 'no-terminate) ; using error function in process filters is rude (message "%s for %s; couldn't set at \"%s\"" error (nth 2 token) do)))) (or timer-alist timer-dont-exit (process-send-eof proc)))) (defun timer-process-sentinel (proc str) (let ((stat (process-status proc))) (if (eq stat 'stop) (continue-process proc) ;; if it exited normally, presumably it was intentional. ;; if there were no pending events, who cares that it exited? (if (or (not timer-alist) (eq stat 'exit)) () (ding 'no-terminate) (message "Timer exited abnormally. All events cancelled.")) (setq timer-process nil timer-alist nil timer-scratch "")))) (defun cancel-timer (function) "Cancel all events scheduled by ``run-at-time'' which would run FUNCTION." (interactive "aCancel function: ") (let ((alist timer-alist)) (while alist (if (eq (nth 2 (car alist)) function) (setq timer-alist (delq (car alist) timer-alist))) (setq alist (cdr alist)))) (or timer-alist timer-dont-exit (process-send-eof timer-process))) (provide 'timer) ;;; timer.el ends here