Re: Idle Time to Poll Serve

[Richmond]

I've modified the script so that it does not check the servers and I
think I see the problem:

News checked at Thu Feb 20 16:41:01 2020
News checked at Thu Feb 20 16:46:01 2020
News checked at Thu Feb 20 16:51:01 2020
News checked at Thu Feb 20 17:00:41 2020
News checked at Thu Feb 20 17:05:41 2020 [2 times]
News checked at Thu Feb 20 17:10:41 2020 [3 times]

It is checking multiple times. Why is it doing that?

(defun news-check ()
  (message "News checked at %s" (current-time-string))
  (setq result (run-with-idle-timer (time-add (current-idle-time) 300) t 
(lambda () (news-check))))
  )

(defun tell-me-news ()
  (interactive)
  (setq result (run-with-idle-timer 300 t (lambda () (news-check))))
  (message "timer result %s" result)
)