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29.0.50; read-char does not reset idle timer in some cases

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ignacio Casso <ignaciocasso <at> hotmail.com>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 54371 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54371: 29.0.50; read-char does not reset idle timer in some
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Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 22:36:12 +0300

> From: Ignacio Casso <ignaciocasso <at> hotmail.com>
> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 54371 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2022 20:22:00 +0200
> 
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> Since my other bug report has already been closed, I've picked up again
> the next one in my pending list, which was this one.
> 
> > However, I still think this should be documented somewhere. The only
> > thing I found was a comment in keyboard.c, and that was only after you
> > pointed me to the right email thread.
> 
> After searching again, I've seen that this behavior is indeed documented
> in the section of the Emacs Lisp manual describing `read-event'.
> 
> >
> > And this is not only about the use of read-event inside timer
> > functions. Currently the Idle Timers section of the manual would make
> > any reader think that these two forms would produce the output "A\nB" if
> > the user takes a few seconds to input a character, but only the first
> > one would.
> >
> > (progn
> >   (run-with-idle-timer 1 nil (lambda () (message "A")))
> >   (read-char "Please wait for 2 seconds" nil nil)
> >   (message "B"))
> >
> > (progn
> >   (run-with-idle-timer 1 nil (lambda () (message "A")))
> >   (read-char "Please wait for 2 seconds" nil 20)
> >   (message "B"))
> >
> > So as I see it, the manual is incorrect right now, or at best incomplete
> > or ambiguous, and a footnote could not hurt. What do you think?
> 
> So unless you see a problem with this, you can close this bug report. Or
> if you want, I can send a patch to update that section of the manual
> with a footnote, and maybe some other relevant docstrings.

Please send the patch, and let's take it from there.

Thanks.

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