Subject: Re: bug#78820: 31.0.50; savehist timer does not run repeatedly

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:53:56 +0300

> Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 02:23:14 +0200
> From:  Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> 
> It seems that the savehist timer does not run repeatedly. run-with-timer
> is called with repeat argument t.
> 
> (run-with-timer savehist-autosave-interval t #'savehist-autosave)
> 
> If I understand correctly, the correct call should look like this:
> 
> (run-with-timer t savehist-autosave-interval #'savehist-autosave)
> (run-with-timer savehist-autosave-interval savehist-autosave-interval #'savehist-autosave)

Why do you think so?  The calling sequence of run-with-timer is this:

  (run-with-timer SECS REPEAT FUNCTION &rest ARGS)

So what savehist.el does appears to be correct.  Or what am I missing?