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Diffstat (limited to 'runtime/doc/eval.txt')
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index 06af04bf63..01bd2a0c65 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -5351,10 +5351,11 @@ jobwait({ids}[, {timeout}]) *jobwait()* Wait for a set of jobs to complete. {ids} is a list of |job-id|s to wait for. - {timeout} is the maximum number of milliseconds to wait. + {timeout} is the maximum waiting time in milliseconds, -1 + means forever. - Use zero {timeout} to check the status of a job: > - let exited = jobwait([{job-id}], 0)[0] >= 0 + Timeout of 0 can be used to check the status of a job: > + let running = jobwait([{job-id}], 0)[0] == -1 < During jobwait() callbacks for jobs not in the {ids} list may be invoked. The screen will not redraw unless |:redraw| is @@ -8572,13 +8573,10 @@ timer_start({time}, {callback} [, {options}]) waiting for input. {options} is a dictionary. Supported entries: - "repeat" Number of times to repeat calling the - callback. -1 means forever. When not present - the callback will be called once. + "repeat" Number of times to repeat the callback. + -1 means forever. Default is 1. If the timer causes an error three times in a - row the repeat is cancelled. This avoids that - Vim becomes unusable because of all the error - messages. + row the repeat is cancelled. Example: > func MyHandler(timer) @@ -8586,8 +8584,7 @@ timer_start({time}, {callback} [, {options}]) endfunc let timer = timer_start(500, 'MyHandler', \ {'repeat': 3}) -< This will invoke MyHandler() three times at 500 msec - intervals. +< This invokes MyHandler() three times at 500 msec intervals. timer_stop({timer}) *timer_stop()* Stop a timer. The timer callback will no longer be invoked. |