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bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:00:57 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:55:02 +0100
> Cc: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>, 37875@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Does anybody know why run-with-timer was added? I think we should
> obsolete one or the other, and I think run-at-time has the best name.
$ fgrep run-with-timer lisp/ChangeLog.*
lisp/ChangeLog.17:15268: (desktop-auto-save-set-timer): Replace
`run-with-timer' with
lisp/ChangeLog.6:2135: (run-with-timer): Just call run-at-time.
lisp/ChangeLog.6:2797: * timer.el (run-with-timer): Set repetition
interval.
lisp/ChangeLog.6:2925: (run-with-timer): Renamed from run-after-delay.
lisp/ChangeLog.6:2926: (run-at-time, run-with-timer): Return the timer.
$ fgrep run-after-delay lisp/ChangeLog.*
lisp/ChangeLog.6:2935: (run-after-delay): New function.
And if you look up the last match, you will see that run-after-delay
was added on the same day timer.el got rewritten using the internal
timers (before that -- oh horror! -- it worked by running an external
program which delivered a signal to Emacs when the time came).
Does that answer your question?
(I don't really understand what would we gain by obsoleting such a
popular function.)
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers, Phil Sainty, 2019/10/22
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers, Michael Heerdegen, 2019/10/23
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/10/28
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/10/29
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers, Phil Sainty, 2019/10/29
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/10/29
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/10/29
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/10/29
- bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/10/29