How to trigger an onkeyup event that's delayed until a user pauses their typing?

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I have a textarea where people enter some text (naturally), and I want to make it so that an AJAX request is made every now and then to get some suggestions regarding what the textarea is about (like stack overflow's Related Questions, but for a textarea, not a text input). The problem is that I can't do an AJAX request at every keypress (it'd be useless and very resource consuming), and I am not sure what would be the most efficient way to do it (every X words? every X seconds? or something else?).

What would be the best way to go about doing this?

Thank you in advance.

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If you are using this functionality alot around the site and don't want to keep track of all of the setTimeout refs etc then i packaged this up into a plugin available here.

The plugin adds a few options to the normal $.ajax method for buffering and canceling previous ajax calls.

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