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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Why run-with-timer is not mentioned in info?
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 13:55:44 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <917f7790-12ea-481f-a172-b87d6ac5c90d@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150605T214443-617@post.gmane.org>

> > Is there a reason for this? Is it not recommended or something?
> 
> Ah, just checked its implementation and I see it calls run-at-time.
> 
> It never occurred to me to read run-at-time docs for this, because
> its name suggestes it to me it ran at a specific time, not
> periodically.

If you think that an index entry for `run-with-timer' would be helpful,
don't hesitate to ask for it: `M-x report-emacs-bug'.  (That's for
enhancement requests and suggestions too, not just bugs.)



      reply	other threads:[~2015-06-05 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-05 19:41 Why run-with-timer is not mentioned in info? Tom
2015-06-05 19:47 ` Tom
2015-06-05 20:55   ` Drew Adams [this message]

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