Richard Stallman wrote:
It is not surprising that that change would have this effect
if a program uses the function this way.
I'm not sure what you mean by "this way". I wonder if you are meaning
the explanation of a different bug I gave last week where I discovered
that the semantic-idle timer seemed to be continously running. But my
explanation then was of the buggy behaviour, I had attributed the
problem to a different change.
From my understanding of the workaround that has been posted, it works
by changing a call to cancel-timer to instead increase the timeout
period to 1 hour. I think that means that cancel-timer is not actually
cancelling the timer in the case where the timer is repeating due to
Emacs still being idle. Or maybe cancel-timer was never supposed to deal
with this case, and the author of semantic only thought it was working
because idle-timer functions were only running once each time Emacs
became idle anyway.
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