From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, psainty@orcon.net.nz, 37875@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:20:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wocn23y1.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831ruwst2u.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 28 Oct 2019 19:00:57 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> And if you look up the last match, you will see that run-after-delay
> was added on the same day timer.el got rewritten using the internal
> timers (before that -- oh horror! -- it worked by running an external
> program which delivered a signal to Emacs when the time came).
Geez.
> Does that answer your question?
Not really -- I wondered why there were two functions (run-with-timer
and run-at-time) that are identical.
> (I don't really understand what would we gain by obsoleting such a
> popular function.)
It could be made into a defalias at least -- the run-at-time doc string
is much better than the run-with-timer one.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-29 11:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-22 18:38 bug#37875: 27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers Phil Sainty
2019-10-23 7:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2019-10-28 15:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-28 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-29 11:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-29 11:34 ` Phil Sainty
2019-10-29 12:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-29 12:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-29 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-29 21:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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