Re: problems with idle timers

[Kai Grossjohann]

Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> So good so far. This has pretty much the behaviour I want. But there
> is problem. While the timer works mostly as I want, and stops when I
> do anything to Emacs, I notice that it sometimes gets stuck. So I'll
> go and make some tea, and the idle timer will not have started
> again. If I do something with emacs and then let it idle generally the
> timer will start again happily. 

This appears to be the result of passing t for REPEAT: it will run
the idle timer only once for each time Emacs is idle.

But I don't grok the docs, so I don't know what happens when passing
nil.

Kai