lisp/timer.el

   1 ;;; timer.el --- run a function with args at some time in future
   2
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  23 ;;; Commentary:
  24
  25 ;; This package gives you the capability to run Emacs Lisp commands at
  26 ;; specified simes in the future, either as one-shots or periodically.
  27 ;; The single entry point is `run-at-time'.
  28
  29 ;;; Code:
  30
  31 ;;; The name of the program to run as the timer subprocess.  It should
  32 ;;; be in exec-directory.
  33 (defconst timer-program "timer")
  34
  35 (defvar timer-process nil)
  36 (defvar timer-alist ())
  37 (defvar timer-out "")
  38 (defvar timer-dont-exit nil
  39   ;; this is useful for functions which will be doing their own erratic
  40   ;; rescheduling or people who otherwise expect to use the process frequently
  41   "If non-nil, don't exit the timer process when no more events are pending.")
  42
  43 ;;;###autoload
  44 (defun run-at-time (time repeat function &rest args)
  45   "Run a function at a time, and optionally on a regular interval.
  46 Arguments are TIME, REPEAT, FUNCTION &rest ARGS.
  47 TIME, a string, can be specified absolutely or relative to now.
  48 TIME can also be an integer, a number of seconds.
  49 REPEAT, an integer number of seconds, is the interval on which to repeat
  50 the call to the function.  If REPEAT is nil, call it just once.
  51
  52 Absolute times may be specified in a wide variety of formats;
  53 Something of the form `HOUR:MIN:SEC TIMEZONE MONTH/DAY/YEAR', where
  54 all fields are numbers, works; the format used by the Unix `date'
  55 command works too.
  56
  57 Relative times may be specified as a series of numbers followed by units:
  58   1 min                 denotes one minute from now.
  59   min                   does too.
  60   1 min 5 sec           denotes 65 seconds from now.
  61   1 min 2 sec 3 hour 4 day 5 week 6 fortnight 7 month 8 year
  62                         denotes the sum of all the given durations from now."
  63   (interactive "sRun at time: \nNRepeat interval: \naFunction: ")
  64   ;; Make TIME a string.
  65   (if (integerp time)
  66       (setq time (format "%d sec" time)))
  67   (cond ((or (not timer-process)
  68              (memq (process-status timer-process) '(exit signal nil)))
  69          (if timer-process (delete-process timer-process))
  70          (setq timer-process
  71                (let ((process-connection-type nil))
  72                  ;; Don't search the exec path for the timer program;
  73                  ;; we know exactly which one we want.
  74                  (start-process "timer" nil
  75                                 (expand-file-name timer-program
  76                                                   exec-directory)))
  77                timer-alist nil)
  78          (set-process-filter   timer-process 'timer-process-filter)
  79          (set-process-sentinel timer-process 'timer-process-sentinel)
  80          (process-kill-without-query timer-process))
  81         ((eq (process-status timer-process) 'stop)
  82          (continue-process timer-process)))
  83   ;; There should be a living, breathing timer process now
  84   (let* ((token (concat (current-time-string) "-" (length timer-alist)))
  85          (elt (list token repeat function args)))
  86     (process-send-string timer-process (concat time "@" token "\n"))
  87     (setq timer-alist (cons elt timer-alist))
  88     elt))
  89
  90 (defun cancel-timer (elt)
  91   "Cancel a timer previously made with `run-at-time'.
  92 The argument should be a value previously returned by `run-at-time'.
  93 Cancelling the timer means that nothing special
  94 will happen at the specified time."
  95   (setcar (cdr elt) nil)
  96   (setcar (cdr (cdr elt)) 'ignore))
  97
  98 (defun timer-process-filter (proc str)
  99   (setq timer-out (concat timer-out str))
 100   (let (do token error)
 101     (while (string-match "\n" timer-out)
 102       (setq token (substring timer-out 0 (match-beginning 0))
 103             do (assoc token timer-alist)
 104             timer-out (substring timer-out (match-end 0)))
 105       (cond
 106        (do
 107         (apply (nth 2 do) (nth 3 do))   ; do it
 108         (if (natnump (nth 1 do))        ; reschedule it
 109             (send-string proc (concat (nth 1 do) " sec@" (car do) "\n"))
 110           (setq timer-alist (delq do timer-alist))))
 111        ((string-match "timer: \\([^:]+\\): \\([^@]*\\)@\\(.*\\)$" token)
 112         (setq error (substring token (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))
 113               do    (substring token (match-beginning 2) (match-end 2))
 114               token (assoc (substring token (match-beginning 3) (match-end 3))
 115                            timer-alist)
 116               timer-alist (delq token timer-alist))
 117         (ding 'no-terminate) ; using error function in process filters is rude
 118         (message "%s for %s; couldn't set at \"%s\"" error (nth 2 token) do))))
 119     (or timer-alist timer-dont-exit (process-send-eof proc))))
 120
 121 (defun timer-process-sentinel (proc str)
 122   (let ((stat (process-status proc)))
 123     (if (eq stat 'stop) (continue-process proc)
 124       ;; if it exited normally, presumably it was intentional.
 125       ;; if there were no pending events, who cares that it exited?
 126       (if (or (not timer-alist) (eq stat 'exit)) ()
 127         (ding 'no-terminate)
 128         (message "Timer exited abnormally.  All events cancelled."))
 129       ;; Used to set timer-scratch to "", but nothing uses that var.
 130       (setq timer-process nil timer-alist nil))))
 131
 132 (defun cancel-function-timers (function)
 133   "Cancel all events scheduled by `run-at-time' which would run FUNCTION."
 134   (interactive "aCancel timers of function: ")
 135   (let ((alist timer-alist))
 136     (while alist
 137       (if (eq (nth 2 (car alist)) function)
 138           (setq timer-alist (delq (car alist) timer-alist)))
 139       (setq alist (cdr alist))))
 140   (or timer-alist timer-dont-exit (process-send-eof timer-process)))
 141
 142 (provide 'timer)
 143
 144 ;;; timer.el ends here