procyberian/emacs
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Packages Wiki Activity Actions

Clarify "idleness" in the ELisp manual

Browse source 
* doc/lispref/os.texi (Idle Timers): Clarify that waiting for
input with timeout doesn't make Emacs idle.  Suggested by Ignacio
<ignaciocasso@hotmail.com>.  (Bug#54371)
This commit is contained in:
Eli Zaretskii 2022-04-08 09:48:15 +03:00
parent 98abf01fd6
commit 4f27588a16
1 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

3
doc/lispref/os.texi
View file

@ -2284,7 +2284,8 @@ can use in calling @code{cancel-timer} (@pxref{Timers}).
@end deffn
@cindex idleness
Emacs becomes @dfn{idle} when it starts waiting for user input, and
Emacs becomes @dfn{idle} when it starts waiting for user input
(unless it waits for input with a timeout, @pxref{Reading One Event}), and
it remains idle until the user provides some input. If a timer is set
for five seconds of idleness, it runs approximately five seconds after
Emacs first becomes idle. Even if @var{repeat} is non-@code{nil},