Re: [BUG] Resolving idle clocks needs multiple keystrokes [9.5.2 (release_9.5.2-24-g668205 @ /home/ignacio/repos/emacs/lisp/org/)]

[Ignacio Casso]

> So the problem is in (org-user-idle-seconds), which in my window system
> boils down to a call to (current-idle-time). It should return 0 after
> answering the prompt, but in my system it keeps counting up. At this
> point I stopped investigating since that function is defined in C.
>

I have investigated this a little bit further and it seems that reading
a character with read-char only resets the idle timer if the SECONDS
argument is nil (which is not the case here) . I reported it as a bug to
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, but it seems there is a reason for that. See
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54371

> Since this bug is already old and I have not found much information
> about it, I assume that in most systems answering the prompt does reset
> the idle timer and this bug does not occur.

It also seems to happen for all systems, so either much less people than
I thought use this feature, or there is something else that makes this
bug particular to my setup, although I can't think of anything else.

> As a quick fix for those
> systems where this is an issue, we could reset the idle timer ourselves
> after the prompt in org-resolve-clocks-if-idle.

I have thought of a better way to fix this, and currently there is no
way to do reset the idle timer with Elisp anyway. I attach the patch: it
just cancels the timer before prompting the user and sets it again if
needed after the prompt is answered. What do you think?

>From 288b25ea95699596762b199088ce6828a5e9a0ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ignacio <ignacio.decasso@imdea.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:41:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fixed bug

---
 lisp/org/org-clock.el | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/org/org-clock.el b/lisp/org/org-clock.el
index dce5d9d4c0..81d4a85782 100644
--- a/lisp/org/org-clock.el
+++ b/lisp/org/org-clock.el
@@ -1228,7 +1228,9 @@ org-resolve-clocks-if-idle
           (org-clock-user-idle-start
            (org-time-since org-clock-user-idle-seconds))
           (org-clock-resolving-clocks-due-to-idleness t))
-      (if (> org-clock-user-idle-seconds (* 60 org-clock-idle-time))
+      (when (> org-clock-user-idle-seconds (* 60 org-clock-idle-time))
+          (cancel-timer org-clock-idle-timer)
+          (setq org-clock-idle-timer nil)
          (org-clock-resolve
           (cons org-clock-marker
                 org-clock-start-time)
@@ -1237,7 +1239,10 @@ org-resolve-clocks-if-idle
                     (/ (float-time
                         (time-since org-clock-user-idle-start))
                        60)))
-          org-clock-user-idle-start)))))
+          org-clock-user-idle-start)
+          (when (and (org-clocking-p) (not org-clock-idle-timer))
+            (setq org-clock-idle-timer
+                 (run-with-timer 60 60 #'org-resolve-clocks-if-idle)))))))
 
 (defvar org-clock-current-task nil "Task currently clocked in.")
 (defvar org-clock-out-time nil) ; store the time of the last clock-out
-- 
2.25.1