[Erc-discuss] Re: Make erc-autoaway-use-emacs-idle work like type-break mode?

[Michael Olson]

address@hidden (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Michael Olson <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I figure we could remove the idle timer functionality (since it
>> appears to be broken) and make it an option to use the time of the
>> last keystroke as a basis for autoaway detection.
>
> People keep saying that it "appears to be broken". Has anyone actually
> checked this himself?

From the documentation of `erc-autoaway-use-emacs-idle':

  Note that using Emacs idletime is currently broken for most
  versions, since process activity (as happens all the time on IRC)
  makes Emacs non-idle.  Emacs idle-time and user idle-time are just
  not the same.

> If "Emacs idle-time and user idle-time are just not the same" is
> true, it is a bug and should be reported.

"apparently broken" wasn't the best word choice in retrospect.
Something along the lines of "is non-optimal for the kind of idle
detection that most people want" would have been more accurate.

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