Re: desktop.el: autosave?

[martin rudalics]

> > Wouldn't it be sufficient to have one idle timer which triggers
> > auto-saving only if some timeout has elapsed since the last auto-save
> > of the desktop?
>
>
> It seems this is not possible with idle timers because they use timeout
> elapsed since the last user input, not the last time they run.

Ahh no.  I meant using an extra variable which records the last autosave
date.  Whenever the routine triggered by the idle timer detects that the
period (one hour ...) has elapsed (by comparing that variable's value
with the present time) it does autosave and reset that variable.  This
would only fail when an idle time starts before the autosave timeout has
expired and terminates long after that.