Re: Idle Time to Poll Serve

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> writes:

> 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)
> )

Why two timers? Why recursive? I don't have time (or patience!) to
unpick exactly what's happening here, but I would suggest starting with
the simplest possible solution and making that work first.