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bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:20:38 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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.
> Does that answer your question?
Not really -- I wondered why there were two functions (run-with-timer
and run-at-time) that are identical.
> (I don't really understand what would we gain by obsoleting such a
> popular function.)
It could be made into a defalias at least -- the run-at-time doc string
is much better than the run-with-timer one.
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- 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 <=
- 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