Re: problems with timers?
>>>>> "Fabrice" == Fabrice Popineau
<Fabrice.Popineau(a)supelec.fr>
>>>>> writes:
Fabrice> The timer is complaining that nothing is
catching his timeout.
Fabrice> Did I miss something?
Possibly; there was some discussion of that function a few weeks
back
on xemacs-beta, and there has also been some discussion of dealing
with zero-interval timeouts more recently. Dunno if anything was
done.
I saw the fix about the zero interval timeouts, but it doesn't seem to be
the problem. Apprently, the logic behind with-timeout is flawed or I'm
misusing it. The way it is written in timer-funcs.el, the timer won't be
deleted if the job inside completes. My guess is that both last forms
should be outside the (when (catch ... ) ... ), ie:
--- timer-funcs.el 2005-02-04 09:08:22.000000000 +0100
+++ timer-funcs.el 2005-01-25 11:25:10.000000000 +0100
＠＠ -188,9 +188,9 ＠＠
,seconds nil nil t with-timeout-tag))
(setq with-timeout-value (progn ,＠body))
nil))
- ,＠timeout-forms)
- (delete-itimer with-timeout-timer)
- with-timeout-value))))
+ ,＠timeout-forms
+ (delete-itimer with-timeout-timer)
+ with-timeout-value))))
;;;###autoload
(defun y-or-n-p-with-timeout (prompt seconds default-value)
My test function works much better:
(global-set-key [(control c) (control a)]
'(lambda ()
(interactive)
(if
(with-timeout (4 nil) (y-or-n-p "Do you really want to exit Emacs ? "))
(message "Exited")
(message ""))))
Fabrice