* timer.el questions
@ 2002-07-15 8:26 Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-15 18:21 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-16 13:28 ` Richard Stallman
0 siblings, 2 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2002-07-15 8:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Two quiestions about timer.el:
1.- `timer-set-time' and `timer-set-time-with-usecs' say "if optional
argument DELTA is a non-zero integer, blah blah blah" and then both
do:
(aset timer 4 (and (numberp delta) (> delta 0) delta))
and there's a ChangeLog entry from Richard:
1996-01-31 Richard Stallman <rms@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
(timer-set-time, timer-set-time-with-usecs): Allow floating DELTA.
so, should the documentation be fixed to say "a non-zero number"?
2.- It is `timer-set-time-with-usecs' used anywhere on planet Earth, or
it is just a case of creeping featuritis? Because the Emacs source
does not use it, and a search on Google (web and group search) did
not find anything but a few references to the timer.el source and to
documentation...
/L/e/k/t/u
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* Re: timer.el questions
2002-07-15 8:26 timer.el questions Juanma Barranquero
@ 2002-07-15 18:21 ` Ken Raeburn
2002-07-16 6:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-16 13:28 ` Richard Stallman
1 sibling, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Ken Raeburn @ 2002-07-15 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es> writes:
> (aset timer 4 (and (numberp delta) (> delta 0) delta))
> so, should the documentation be fixed to say "a non-zero number"?
From the code you quoted, I'd say "a positive number" would be more
accurate.
Ken
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* Re: timer.el questions
2002-07-15 18:21 ` Ken Raeburn
@ 2002-07-16 6:19 ` Juanma Barranquero
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From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2002-07-16 6:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:21:26 -0400, Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org> wrote:
> From the code you quoted, I'd say "a positive number" would be more
> accurate.
Well, yeah, sure ;-)
I was following the original docstring, but you're right, it's better to
be precise.
/L/e/k/t/u
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* Re: timer.el questions
2002-07-15 8:26 timer.el questions Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-15 18:21 ` Ken Raeburn
@ 2002-07-16 13:28 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-16 14:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
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From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-07-16 13:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
so, should the documentation be fixed to say "a non-zero number"?
Yes, I will do that. Thanks.
2.- It is `timer-set-time-with-usecs' used anywhere on planet Earth, or
it is just a case of creeping featuritis?
It is possible that this existed before floating point was standardly
enabled in Emacs.
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* Re: timer.el questions
2002-07-16 13:28 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2002-07-16 14:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
2002-07-17 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
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From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2002-07-16 14:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:28:36 -0600 (MDT), Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> Yes, I will do that. Thanks.
Uh, I already changed it to "positive number", as Ken suggested.
> It is possible that this existed before floating point was standardly
> enabled in Emacs.
Then perhaps we should remove it. It is apparently not used anywhere and
has a strange interface: how many times will anyone need to take a
current-time, remove its microseconds and add it another microsecond
count, and *then* use that to set a timer? ;-)
/L/e/k/t/u
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* Re: timer.el questions
2002-07-16 14:02 ` Juanma Barranquero
@ 2002-07-17 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-17 7:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-07-17 3:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Then perhaps we should remove it. It is apparently not used anywhere and
has a strange interface: how many times will anyone need to take a
current-time, remove its microseconds and add it another microsecond
count, and *then* use that to set a timer? ;-)
Let's mark it obsolete, and the note would say to use the other
function instead.
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* Re: timer.el questions
2002-07-17 3:04 ` Richard Stallman
@ 2002-07-17 7:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
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From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2002-07-17 7:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:04:59 -0600 (MDT), Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> Let's mark it obsolete, and the note would say to use the other
> function instead.
Done.
/L/e/k/t/u
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