Re: Possible support for buffer local idle timers?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> I don't understand what you mean by "acting on a buffer".  The timer
> function can do anything it wants in any buffer.

It is common to tie timers to buffers, though.  A common pattern in
timer functions is

(lambda ()
  (if (not (get-buffer buffer))
      (cancel-timer timer)
    (do-our-stuff...)))

and for idle timers

(lambda ()
  (when (eq (current-buffer) buffer)
    (do-our-stuff...)))

I think what's requested is just some syntactic sugar for these two
things.

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