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31.0.50; savehist timer does not run repeatedly

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Daniel Mendler <mail <at> daniel-mendler.de>
Cc: 78820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#78820: 31.0.50; savehist timer does not run repeatedly
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:53:56 +0300

> Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> 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" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> 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?

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