Hi Benjamin!
On Mi, 04 Mai 2011, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
> I'm not quite following all of this. What's the use case for firing
> an event every X milliseconds *if the user isn't moving the cursor*?
>
> Wouldn't it be far more useful to have something like
> JavaScript-style setInterval()? (which runs a function every X
> milliseconds, and the returned 'interval ID' can be used to stop the
> repeating via 'clearInterval()')
>
> I'd much rather see something like that make it into Vim, rather
> than just extending CursorHold{,I} to CursorHoldRepeat{,I} simply
> because it's fairly straightforward in terms of the implementation
> details. (Not that I'm terribly opposed to this change; I just don't
> see the rationale.)
While this sounds indeed interesting, I am afraid, this will be much
harder to implement and I don't think I can do this.
regards,
Christian
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