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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu>
Cc: 39668@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39668: 26.2; timer-list and timer-idle-list are undocumented in the Elisp manual
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:35:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgj7lp5o.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AySr6g.dS0VFHvicgO6.eGQmqjo60iEBGQXYdF@freemail.hu> (message from ndame on Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:54:28 +0000 (GMT))

> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:54:28 +0000 (GMT)
> From: ndame <emacsuser@freemail.hu>
> 
> I checked under Timers for Delayed Execution, but there was no 
> info there how to get the list of active timers.
> 
> It mentions the list-timers command, but not the above variables,
> so I had to check the source code of list-timers to find out about
> these variables.

And what is wrong with that, may I ask?

These variables are internal implementation details of how timers work
in Emacs.  The ELisp manual documents the facilities available for
Lisp programs, it doesn't document how each facility is implemented --
for that, you indeed need to read the sources.





  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-18 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-18 17:54 bug#39668: 26.2; timer-list and timer-idle-list are undocumented in the Elisp manual ndame
2020-02-18 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-02-18 18:45   ` ndame
2020-02-18 19:26     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-18 19:36       ` ndame
2020-02-18 19:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-18 20:04           ` ndame

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