From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:31:46 +0200 Message-ID: <83pnifpwb1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7a3175eb-dc19-afe7-b5fa-964eabf31ace@orcon.net.nz> <87v9sg0wtq.fsf@web.de> <87o8y0986h.fsf@gnus.org> <831ruwst2u.fsf@gnu.org> <87wocn23y1.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="54590"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, psainty@orcon.net.nz, 37875@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 29 13:32:15 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQfW-000E5F-S5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:32:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56338 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQfV-0007jV-3s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:32:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46774) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQfL-0007e6-Gp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:32:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQfK-0003Mc-DB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:38181) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQfK-0003MX-9z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQfK-0007kn-5J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:32:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 37875 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 37875-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B37875.157235232129802 (code B ref 37875); Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 37875) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Oct 2019 12:32:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47002 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQfJ-0007kY-7q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:32:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37694) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQfG-0007kL-JI for 37875@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:38499) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQfA-0003Kb-P1; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1713 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iPQf8-0005tX-9H; Tue, 29 Oct 2019 08:31:51 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wocn23y1.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:20:38 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170366 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, psainty@orcon.net.nz, 37875@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:20:38 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii 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.