From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: timer.el questions Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:04:59 -0600 (MDT) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200207170304.g6H34xP22817@aztec.santafe.edu> References: <20020715101329.595A.LEKTU@terra.es> <200207161328.g6GDSaL21938@aztec.santafe.edu> <20020716155903.4196.LEKTU@terra.es> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1026875228 21997 127.0.0.1 (17 Jul 2002 03:07:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 03:07:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17Uf9c-0005iX-00 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 05:07:04 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17UfKp-0000eD-00 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 05:18:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Uf8a-0005rA-00; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from pele.santafe.edu ([192.12.12.119]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17Uf7c-0005oj-00; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 23:05:00 -0400 Original-Received: from aztec.santafe.edu (aztec [192.12.12.49]) by pele.santafe.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g6H352B24467; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:05:02 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: (from rms@localhost) by aztec.santafe.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.3) id g6H34xP22817; Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:04:59 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aztec.santafe.edu: rms set sender to rms@aztec using -f Original-To: lektu@terra.es In-Reply-To: <20020716155903.4196.LEKTU@terra.es> (message from Juanma Barranquero on Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:02:43 +0200) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5813 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5813 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.