From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why run-with-timer is not mentioned in info? Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 19:47:11 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433533699 13837 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2015 19:48:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 19:48:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 21:48:07 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xaq-0000v5-LI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:47:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xaq-0007ov-0C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:47:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54220) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xaf-0007oc-Kz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xaa-0003Jo-9z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:47:41 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53962) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xaa-0003Je-31 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 15:47:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0xaT-0000cC-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:47:29 +0200 Original-Received: from 92-249-133-131.pool.digikabel.hu ([92.249.133.131]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:47:29 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 92-249-133-131.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 21:47:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 92.249.133.131 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104776 Archived-At: Tom gmail.com> writes: > > 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.