Re: [vile] Detecting if vile is idle

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:33:42AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> I want to detect if vile has been idle for a period (i.e. five minutes
> or so) while editing a file.  Would it be possible to hijack the
> autocolor variable and the autocolor-hook to do this?
> 
> It will only be for one specific case where I am using vile via a
> wrapper script and syntax highlighting isn't required.
> 
> If I set autocolor to 300000 (five minutes) will autocolor-hook get
> called after five minutes of idleness?  I can then do what I want by
> 'setv $autocolor-hook <some new script>'.
> 
> Can I set autocolor to such a large value (64-bit Linux machine)?
> 
Any thoughts?

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Chris Green