From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8793: 24.0.50; doc strings of timer-activate(-when-idle) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 22:35:44 -0700 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307079450 16550 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2011 05:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2011 05:37:30 +0000 (UTC) To: 8793@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 03 07:37:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QSN4V-0008TJ-Fy for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:37:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55793 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QSN4U-0006zf-LN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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He saw the problems in Emacs 23 and requested that I check Emacs 24 and file a bug if the problems are still present. They are. 1. In `timer-activate', arg IDLE is not described at all. 2. In both functions, "the meaning of REUSE-CELL is quite mysterious". In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-05-31 on 3249CTO Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.5) --no-opt --cflags -Ic:/build/include'