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27.0.50; `run-with-timer' not documented in (elisp)Timers

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, psainty <at> orcon.net.nz, 37875 <at> 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

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> 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.

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