Mercurial > emacs
changeset 50654:07caa9606def
(Timers): Explain about timers and quitting.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 01:38:24 +0000 |
| parents | 6f6abeeda7ed |
| children | 8e621ea67f06 |
| files | lispref/os.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/os.texi Mon Apr 21 01:37:37 2003 +0000 +++ b/lispref/os.texi Mon Apr 21 01:38:24 2003 +0000 @@ -1275,8 +1275,8 @@ @section Timers for Delayed Execution @cindex timer - You can set up a @dfn{timer} to call a function at a specified future time or -after a certain length of idleness. + You can set up a @dfn{timer} to call a function at a specified +future time or after a certain length of idleness. Emacs cannot run timers at any arbitrary point in a Lisp program; it can run them only when Emacs could accept output from a subprocess: @@ -1285,6 +1285,13 @@ timer's execution may be delayed if Emacs is busy. However, the time of execution is very precise if Emacs is idle. + Emacs binds @code{inhibit-quit} to @code{t} before calling the timer +function, because quitting out of many timer functions can leave +things in an inconsistent state. This is normally unproblematical +because most timer functions don't do a lot of work. Indeed, for a +timer to calls a function that takes substantial time to run is likely +to be annoying. + @defun run-at-time time repeat function &rest args This function arranges to call @var{function} with arguments @var{args} at time @var{time}. The argument @var{function} is a function to call