Re: Fwd: idle exit hook

[Ergus]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 04:59:24PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:32:42 +0200
> > From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> >
> > Is there an idle-time-exit-hook? or, what's the canonical method to call
> > a function after breaking an idle? something like on-idle-exit?
>
> How do you define "breaking the idle"?  IOW, what events or activities
> will potentially be considered as "breaking the idle"?
Hi Eli:

When I say "breaking the idle" I mean any event that potentially could
be considered as not in idle anymore... or anything that resets the idle
counter.

> > The idea came to me when trying to implement my own version of
> > idle-highlight-mode to propose to add it to vanilla. I would like to
> > provide a different behaviour.
>
> Not sure why you need a new hook for implementing that behavior.
> maybe tell more details about what you intend to implement.
The idea is extremely simple (that's why I thing it could be in
vanilla). When in idle for some seconds a run-with-idle-timer calls a
function to set a highlight for thing-at-point. (useful when
programming for example)

https://github.com/nonsequitur/idle-highlight-mode/blob/master/idle-highlight-mode.el

The problem with the original implementation (apart from being abandon
and re-implemented by many packages and configuration) is that the
unhighlight function is called only when the idled function is executed
again.

A more common behavior (as in vs-code, atom and so on) is that when we
press any key o perform any action to exit the "highlighted thing"; the
highlight disappears immediately.

This could be performed using a different hook, (post-command-hook) but
it will require add and remove the hook constantly...

WDYT?
Best
Ergus