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bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:31:46 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, psainty@orcon.net.nz, 37875@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:20:38 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > 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).
>
> Geez.
Yeah.
> > Does that answer your question?
>
> Not really -- I wondered why there were two functions (run-with-timer
> and run-at-time) that are identical.
Because they aren't identical, see Phil's response. run-after-delay
was just that: it would run the function after a delay of SECS, and
that argument isn't supposed to be anything but a number of seconds to
wait from NOW.
- 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, 2019/10/28
- 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 <=
- 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