Re: How to test whether any code runs after same command invocation?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> > Example: I use some code that propertizes any dired buffer in a way that
> > the mouse tooltip over any directory shows the directory contents.
> > Since that can take a long time for huge directory hierarchies, I want
> > to use a timeout.  But if you have marked files you operate on, the code
> > is run multiple times when refreshing the files' lines, so the timeout
>
> Not sure I understand.  Do you use after-change-functions, by any
> chance?

I after-advice dired-insert-set-properties.  

> Could you use jit-lock instead?

I didn't want to cope with that.  Also, this was just an example, I have
other, quite different use cases of the raised issue.

> > Is there a cleverer way?
>
> In general, not that I know.
> You can also use wall-time instead of a counter incremented in
> post-command-hook.

What's that?  Don't find it anywhere.  Is it a C variable?  In that case
I can't use it.


Thanks,

Michael.