From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Flynn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#46607: 25.2; Emacs hangs with Error running timer 'blink-cursor-start' Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:07:06 +0000 Organization: Silmaril Consultants Message-ID: <5b1f789a-a7b3-d7d9-47d0-8e378397bc98@silmaril.ie> References: <87v9apwq4o.fsf@gnus.org> <64r1ldc72x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29115"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 Cc: 46607@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 19 00:08:12 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lCsP6-0007Sc-FH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:08:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47482 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCsP5-0000gV-Bw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:08:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCsOw-0000gL-FI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:08:02 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:36833) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCsOw-0001fg-7k for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:08:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lCsOw-0002qs-1L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:08:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Peter Flynn Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:08:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 46607 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 46607-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B46607.161368963510861 (code B ref 46607); Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:08:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 46607) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2021 23:07:15 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48379 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lCsOB-0002p6-8p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:07:15 -0500 Original-Received: from orion.myhost.ie ([217.115.118.6]:60695) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lCsO9-0002ok-9W for 46607@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:07:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.180] (unknown [79.97.20.231]) (Authenticated sender: peter@silmaril.ie) by orion.myhost.ie (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 17C6914C4; Thu, 18 Feb 2021 23:07:07 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: <64r1ldc72x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:200299 Archived-At: On 18/02/2021 23:03, Glenn Morris wrote: > > (time-add nil 0.5) > > fails with an error in Emacs versions before 25.1. > > FWIW, my guess is that something in site-lisp clobbers the definition of > one or more builtin time- functions with old versions. > > I wonder what this says: > C-h f time-add It says > time-add is a built-in function in ‘C source code’. > > (time-add A B) > > Return the sum of two time values A and B, as a time value. > A nil value for either argument stands for the current time. > See ‘current-time-string’ for the various forms of a time value. Peter