Subject: Re: bug#64423: 29.0.92; save-interprogram-paste-before-kill doesn't prevent streaming large selections

From: Po Lu <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 08:30:12 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> That timers in Emacs work is small wonder.
>
> The point of threads, AFAIU, was to allow doing the same stuff as we
> do with timers, but with significantly less hair on the Lisp level.

IIRC idle timers used to be implemented in Lisp, with an asynchronous
process sending output whenever a timer expired :-)