> So the problem is in (org-user-idle-seconds), which in my window system > boils down to a call to (current-idle-time). It should return 0 after > answering the prompt, but in my system it keeps counting up. At this > point I stopped investigating since that function is defined in C. >
I have investigated this a little bit further and it seems that reading a character with read-char only resets the idle timer if the SECONDS argument is nil (which is not the case here) . I reported it as a bug to bug-gnu-em...@gnu.org, but it seems there is a reason for that. See https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=54371 > Since this bug is already old and I have not found much information > about it, I assume that in most systems answering the prompt does reset > the idle timer and this bug does not occur. It also seems to happen for all systems, so either much less people than I thought use this feature, or there is something else that makes this bug particular to my setup, although I can't think of anything else. > As a quick fix for those > systems where this is an issue, we could reset the idle timer ourselves > after the prompt in org-resolve-clocks-if-idle. I have thought of a better way to fix this, and currently there is no way to do reset the idle timer with Elisp anyway. I attach the patch: it just cancels the timer before prompting the user and sets it again if needed after the prompt is answered. What do you think?
>From 288b25ea95699596762b199088ce6828a5e9a0ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ignacio <ignacio.deca...@imdea.org> Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 21:41:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] fixed bug --- lisp/org/org-clock.el | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/org/org-clock.el b/lisp/org/org-clock.el index dce5d9d4c0..81d4a85782 100644 --- a/lisp/org/org-clock.el +++ b/lisp/org/org-clock.el @@ -1228,7 +1228,9 @@ org-resolve-clocks-if-idle (org-clock-user-idle-start (org-time-since org-clock-user-idle-seconds)) (org-clock-resolving-clocks-due-to-idleness t)) - (if (> org-clock-user-idle-seconds (* 60 org-clock-idle-time)) + (when (> org-clock-user-idle-seconds (* 60 org-clock-idle-time)) + (cancel-timer org-clock-idle-timer) + (setq org-clock-idle-timer nil) (org-clock-resolve (cons org-clock-marker org-clock-start-time) @@ -1237,7 +1239,10 @@ org-resolve-clocks-if-idle (/ (float-time (time-since org-clock-user-idle-start)) 60))) - org-clock-user-idle-start))))) + org-clock-user-idle-start) + (when (and (org-clocking-p) (not org-clock-idle-timer)) + (setq org-clock-idle-timer + (run-with-timer 60 60 #'org-resolve-clocks-if-idle))))))) (defvar org-clock-current-task nil "Task currently clocked in.") (defvar org-clock-out-time nil) ; store the time of the last clock-out -- 2.25.1
