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- ;;; timer.el --- run a function with args at some time in future
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1990, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; Maintainer: FSF
-
- ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-
- ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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- ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ;; any later version.
-
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- ;; GNU General Public License for more details.
-
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- ;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; This package gives you the capability to run Emacs Lisp commands at
- ;; specified times in the future, either as one-shots or periodically.
- ;; The single entry point is `run-at-time'.
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- ;;; The name of the program to run as the timer subprocess. It should
- ;;; be in exec-directory.
- (defconst timer-program "timer")
-
- (defvar timer-process nil)
- (defvar timer-alist ())
- (defvar timer-out "")
- (defvar timer-dont-exit nil
- ;; this is useful for functions which will be doing their own erratic
- ;; rescheduling or people who otherwise expect to use the process frequently
- "If non-nil, don't exit the timer process when no more events are pending.")
-
- ;;;###autoload
- (defun run-at-time (time repeat function &rest args)
- "Run a function at a time, and optionally on a regular interval.
- Arguments are TIME, REPEAT, FUNCTION &rest ARGS.
- TIME, a string, can be specified absolutely or relative to now.
- TIME can also be an integer, a number of seconds.
- REPEAT, an integer number of seconds, is the interval on which to repeat
- the call to the function. If REPEAT is nil, call it just once.
-
- Absolute times may be specified in a wide variety of formats;
- Something of the form `HOUR:MIN:SEC TIMEZONE MONTH/DAY/YEAR', where
- all fields are numbers, works; the format used by the Unix `date'
- command works too.
-
- Relative times may be specified as a series of numbers followed by units:
- 1 min denotes one minute from now.
- min does too.
- 1 min 5 sec denotes 65 seconds from now.
- 1 min 2 sec 3 hour 4 day 5 week 6 fortnight 7 month 8 year
- denotes the sum of all the given durations from now."
- (interactive "sRun at time: \nNRepeat interval: \naFunction: ")
- ;; Make TIME a string.
- (if (integerp time)
- (setq time (format "%d sec" time)))
- (cond ((or (not timer-process)
- (memq (process-status timer-process) '(exit signal nil)))
- (if timer-process (delete-process timer-process))
- (setq timer-process
- (let ((process-connection-type nil))
- ;; Don't search the exec path for the timer program;
- ;; we know exactly which one we want.
- (start-process "timer" nil
- (expand-file-name timer-program
- exec-directory)))
- timer-alist nil)
- (set-process-filter timer-process 'timer-process-filter)
- (set-process-sentinel timer-process 'timer-process-sentinel)
- (process-kill-without-query timer-process))
- ((eq (process-status timer-process) 'stop)
- (continue-process timer-process)))
- ;; There should be a living, breathing timer process now
- (let* ((token (concat (current-time-string) "-" (length timer-alist)))
- (elt (list token repeat function args)))
- (process-send-string timer-process (concat time "@" token "\n"))
- (setq timer-alist (cons elt timer-alist))
- elt))
-
- (defun cancel-timer (elt)
- "Cancel a timer previously made with `run-at-time'.
- The argument should be a value previously returned by `run-at-time'.
- Cancelling the timer means that nothing special
- will happen at the specified time."
- (setcar (cdr elt) nil)
- (setcar (cdr (cdr elt)) 'ignore))
-
- (defun timer-process-filter (proc str)
- (setq timer-out (concat timer-out str))
- (let (do token error)
- (while (string-match "\n" timer-out)
- (setq token (substring timer-out 0 (match-beginning 0))
- do (assoc token timer-alist)
- timer-out (substring timer-out (match-end 0)))
- (cond
- (do
- (apply (nth 2 do) (nth 3 do)) ; do it
- (if (natnump (nth 1 do)) ; reschedule it
- (send-string proc (concat (nth 1 do) " sec@" (car do) "\n"))
- (setq timer-alist (delq do timer-alist))))
- ((string-match "timer: \\([^:]+\\): \\([^@]*\\)@\\(.*\\)$" token)
- (setq error (substring token (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
- do (substring token (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2))
- token (assoc (substring token (match-beginning 3) (match-end 3))
- timer-alist)
- timer-alist (delq token timer-alist))
- (ding 'no-terminate) ; using error function in process filters is rude
- (message "%s for %s; couldn't set at \"%s\"" error (nth 2 token) do))))
- (or timer-alist timer-dont-exit (process-send-eof proc))))
-
- (defun timer-process-sentinel (proc str)
- (let ((stat (process-status proc)))
- (if (eq stat 'stop) (continue-process proc)
- ;; if it exited normally, presumably it was intentional.
- ;; if there were no pending events, who cares that it exited?
- (if (or (not timer-alist) (eq stat 'exit)) ()
- (ding 'no-terminate)
- (message "Timer exited abnormally. All events cancelled."))
- ;; Used to set timer-scratch to "", but nothing uses that var.
- (setq timer-process nil timer-alist nil))))
-
- (defun cancel-function-timers (function)
- "Cancel all events scheduled by `run-at-time' which would run FUNCTION."
- (interactive "aCancel timers of function: ")
- (let ((alist timer-alist))
- (while alist
- (if (eq (nth 2 (car alist)) function)
- (setq timer-alist (delq (car alist) timer-alist)))
- (setq alist (cdr alist))))
- (or timer-alist timer-dont-exit (process-send-eof timer-process)))
-
- (provide 'timer)
-
- ;;; timer.el ends here
-