From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Why run-with-timer is not mentioned in info? Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 13:55:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <917f7790-12ea-481f-a172-b87d6ac5c90d@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1433537789 12969 80.91.229.3 (5 Jun 2015 20:56:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 20:56:29 +0000 (UTC) To: Tom , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 05 22:56:17 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 1Z0yey-0002jO-EP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 22:56:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0yex-00062m-Gu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:56:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0yeh-00062h-US for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:55:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0yed-0004yi-Tv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:55:55 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:29306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0yed-0004yc-HV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:55:51 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0021.oracle.com (userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id t55KtiAL017532 (version=TLSv1 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 5 Jun 2015 20:55:45 GMT Original-Received: from userv0121.oracle.com (userv0121.oracle.com [156.151.31.72]) by userv0021.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t55KtiJu031193 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 5 Jun 2015 20:55:44 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0020.oracle.com (abhmp0020.oracle.com [141.146.116.26]) by userv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id t55KtiJd005479; Fri, 5 Jun 2015 20:55:44 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0021.oracle.com [156.151.31.71] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:104779 Archived-At: > > Is there a reason for this? Is it not recommended or something? >=20 > Ah, just checked its implementation and I see it calls run-at-time. >=20 > 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. If you think that an index entry for `run-with-timer' would be helpful, don't hesitate to ask for it: `M-x report-emacs-bug'. (That's for enhancement requests and suggestions too, not just bugs.)