Re: [vile] Detecting if vile is idle

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2016 at 03:33:41PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> On 8 March 2016 at 22:03, Chris Green <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Do you have any clever ideas as to how I can "tickle the recent
> > modification bit" programmatically (in a custom .vilerc or similar)?
> > It would then be perfect for what I want, exit after a timeout so I
> > don't leave sensitive encrypted files on show.
> 
> Sure, just make some trivial change and undo it:
> 
>   store-procedure exit-on-timeout 'Exit if no activity for 5 minutes'
>     exit
>   ~endm
>   setv $autocolor-hook exit-on-timeout
>   setv $autocolor 300000
>   insert-string "X"
>   undo
> 
Doesn't undo back to the start clear the modified flag?  It certainly
seems to when done manually, which I think is actually rather clever!

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Chris Green