GNU bug report logs - #39668
26.2; timer-list and timer-idle-list are undocumented in the Elisp manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: ndame <emacsuser <at> freemail.hu>

Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:58:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.2

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 39668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: ndame <emacsuser <at> freemail.hu>
Cc: 39668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: 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

> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 17:54:28 +0000 (GMT)
> From: ndame <emacsuser <at> 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.
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