;;; timer.el --- run a function with args at some time in future. ;; Copyright (C) 1996 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 ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, 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. ;;; Code: (require 'itimer) (fset 'timer-create 'make-itimer) (fset 'timerp 'itimerp) ;(defvar timer-idle-list nil ; "List of active idle-time timers in order of increasing time") (defvaralias 'timer-idle-list 'itimer-list) (defvaralias 'timer-list 'itimer-list) (defun timer-set-time (timer time &optional delta) "Set the trigger time of TIMER to TIME. TIME must be in the internal format returned by, e.g., `current-time'. If optional third argument DELTA is a non-zero integer, make the timer fire repeatedly that many seconds apart." (set-itimer-value timer (itimer-time-difference time (current-time))) (and delta (check-nonnegative-number delta)) (and delta (set-itimer-restart timer delta)) timer) (defun timer-set-idle-time (timer secs &optional repeat) "Set the trigger idle time of TIMER to SECS. If optional third argument REPEAT is non-nil, make the timer fire each time Emacs is idle for that many seconds." (set-itimer-is-idle timer t) (set-itimer-value timer secs) (when repeat (set-itimer-restart timer secs)) timer) (defun timer-relative-time (time secs &optional usecs) "Advance TIME by SECS seconds and optionally USECS microseconds. SECS may be a fraction." (let ((high (car time)) (low (if (consp (cdr time)) (nth 1 time) (cdr time))) (micro (if (numberp (car-safe (cdr-safe (cdr time)))) (nth 2 time) 0))) ;; Add (if usecs (setq micro (+ micro usecs))) (if (floatp secs) (setq micro (+ micro (floor (* 1000000 (- secs (floor secs))))))) (setq low (+ low (floor secs))) ;; Normalize (setq low (+ low (/ micro 1000000))) (setq micro (mod micro 1000000)) (setq high (+ high (/ low 65536))) (setq low (logand low 65535)) (list high low (and (/= micro 0) micro)))) (defun timer-inc-time (timer secs &optional usecs) "Increment the time set in TIMER by SECS seconds and USECS microseconds. SECS may be a fraction." (let ((time (itimer-value timer))) (setq time (+ time secs (if (and usecs (fboundp 'lisp-float-type)) (/ usecs (float 1000000)) 0))) (set-itimer-value timer time))) (defun timer-set-time-with-usecs (timer time usecs &optional delta) "Set the trigger time of TIMER to TIME. TIME must be in the internal format returned by, e.g., `current-time'. If optional third argument DELTA is a non-zero integer, make the timer fire repeatedly that many seconds apart." (let ((list (list nil nil nil))) (setcar list (car time)) (setcar (nthcdr 1 list) (if (consp (cdr time)) (car (cdr time)) (cdr time))) (setcar (nthcdr 2 list) usecs) (set-itimer-value timer (itimer-time-difference list (current-time))) (set-itimer-restart timer delta) timer)) (defun timer-set-function (timer function &optional args) "Make TIMER call FUNCTION with optional ARGS when triggering." (set-itimer-function timer function) (set-itimer-function-arguments timer args) (set-itimer-uses-arguments timer t) timer) (defun timer-activate (timer) "Put TIMER on the list of active timers." (activate-itimer timer)) (defun timer-activate-when-idle (timer) "Arrange to activate TIMER whenever Emacs is next idle." (set-itimer-is-idle timer t) ;(set-itimer-uses-arguments timer nil) ;(unless (memq timer timer-idle-list) ;(setq timer-idle-list (cons timer timer-idle-list))) (activate-itimer timer)) ;; can't do this, different kind of timer ;;(defalias 'disable-timeout 'cancel-timer) (defun cancel-timer (timer) "Remove TIMER from the list of active timers." ;(setq timer-idle-list (delq timer timer-idle-list)) (delete-itimer timer)) (defun cancel-function-timers (function) "Cancel all timers scheduled by `run-at-time' which would run FUNCTION." (interactive "aCancel timers of function: ") (let ((p itimer-list)) (while p (if (eq function (itimer-function p)) (progn (setq p (cdr p)) (delete-itimer (car p))) (setq p (cdr p)))))) ;;;###autoload (defun run-at-time (time repeat function &rest args) "Perform an action after a delay of SECS seconds. Repeat the action every REPEAT seconds, if REPEAT is non-nil. TIME should be a string like \"11:23pm\", nil meaning now, a number of seconds from now, or a value from `encode-time'. REPEAT may be an integer or floating point number. The action is to call FUNCTION with arguments ARGS. This function returns a timer object which you can use in `cancel-timer'." (interactive "sRun at time: \nNRepeat interval: \naFunction: ") ;; Special case: nil means "now" and is useful when repeating. (if (null time) (setq time (current-time))) ;; Handle numbers as relative times in seconds. (if (numberp time) (setq time (timer-relative-time (current-time) time))) ;; Handle relative times like "2 hours and 35 minutes" (if (stringp time) (let ((secs (timer-duration time))) (if secs (setq time (timer-relative-time (current-time) secs))))) ;; Handle "11:23pm" and the like. Interpret it as meaning today ;; which admittedly is rather stupid if we have passed that time ;; already. (Though only Emacs hackers hack Emacs at that time.) (if (stringp time) (progn (require 'diary-lib) (let ((hhmm (diary-entry-time time)) (now (decode-time))) (if (>= hhmm 0) (setq time (encode-time 0 (% hhmm 100) (/ hhmm 100) (nth 3 now) (nth 4 now) (nth 5 now) (nth 8 now))))))) (or (consp time) (error "Invalid time format")) (or (null repeat) (numberp repeat) (error "Invalid repetition interval")) (let ((timer (timer-create))) (timer-set-time timer time repeat) (timer-set-function timer function args) (timer-activate timer) timer)) ;;;###autoload (defun run-with-timer (secs repeat function &rest args) "Perform an action after a delay of SECS seconds. Repeat the action every REPEAT seconds, if REPEAT is non-nil. SECS and REPEAT may be integers or floating point numbers. The action is to call FUNCTION with arguments ARGS. This function returns a timer object which you can use in `cancel-timer'." (interactive "sRun after delay (seconds): \nNRepeat interval: \naFunction: ") (apply 'run-at-time secs repeat function args)) ;;;###autoload (defun run-with-idle-timer (secs repeat function &rest args) "Perform an action the next time Emacs is idle for SECS seconds. If REPEAT is non-nil, do this each time Emacs is idle for SECS seconds. SECS may be an integer or a floating point number. The action is to call FUNCTION with arguments ARGS. This function returns a timer object which you can use in `cancel-timer'." (interactive (list (read-from-minibuffer "Run after idle (seconds): " nil nil t) (y-or-n-p "Repeat each time Emacs is idle? ") (intern (completing-read "Function: " obarray 'fboundp t)))) (let ((timer (timer-create))) (timer-set-function timer function args) (timer-set-idle-time timer secs repeat) (timer-activate-when-idle timer) timer)) (defun with-timeout-handler (tag) (throw tag 'timeout)) ;;;###autoload (put 'with-timeout 'lisp-indent-function 1) ;;;###autoload (defmacro with-timeout (list &rest body) "Run BODY, but if it doesn't finish in SECONDS seconds, give up. If we give up, we run the TIMEOUT-FORMS and return the value of the last one. The call should look like: (with-timeout (SECONDS TIMEOUT-FORMS...) BODY...) The timeout is checked whenever Emacs waits for some kind of external event \(such as keyboard input, input from subprocesses, or a certain time); if the program loops without waiting in any way, the timeout will not be detected." (let ((seconds (car list)) (timeout-forms (cdr list))) `(let ((with-timeout-tag (cons nil nil)) with-timeout-value with-timeout-timer) (if (catch with-timeout-tag (progn (setq with-timeout-timer (run-with-timer ,seconds nil 'with-timeout-handler with-timeout-tag)) (setq with-timeout-value (progn . ,body)) nil)) (progn . ,timeout-forms) (cancel-timer with-timeout-timer) with-timeout-value)))) (defun y-or-n-p-with-timeout (prompt seconds default-value) "Like (y-or-n-p PROMPT), with a timeout. If the user does not answer after SECONDS seconds, return DEFAULT-VALUE." (with-timeout (seconds default-value) (y-or-n-p prompt))) (defvar timer-duration-words (list (cons "microsec" 0.000001) (cons "microsecond" 0.000001) (cons "millisec" 0.001) (cons "millisecond" 0.001) (cons "sec" 1) (cons "second" 1) (cons "min" 60) (cons "minute" 60) (cons "hour" (* 60 60)) (cons "day" (* 24 60 60)) (cons "week" (* 7 24 60 60)) (cons "fortnight" (* 14 24 60 60)) (cons "month" (* 30 24 60 60)) ; Approximation (cons "year" (* 365.25 24 60 60)) ; Approximation ) "Alist mapping temporal words to durations in seconds") (defun timer-duration (string) "Return number of seconds specified by STRING, or nil if parsing fails." (let ((secs 0) (start 0) (case-fold-search t)) (while (string-match "[ \t]*\\([0-9.]+\\)?[ \t]*\\([a-z]+[a-rt-z]\\)s?[ \t]*" string start) (let ((count (if (match-beginning 1) (string-to-number (match-string 1 string)) 1)) (itemsize (cdr (assoc (match-string 2 string) timer-duration-words)))) (if itemsize (setq start (match-end 0) secs (+ secs (* count itemsize))) (setq secs nil start (length string))))) (if (= start (length string)) secs (if (string-match "\\`[0-9.]+\\'" string) (string-to-number string))))) (provide 'timer) ;;; timer.el ends here