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31.0.50; savehist timer does not run repeatedly

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From: Stéphane Marks <shipmints <at> gmail.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: mail <at> daniel-mendler.de, 78820 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#78820: 31.0.50; savehist timer does not run repeatedly
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 08:41:57 -0400

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On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> >>>>> On Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:20:11 +0200, Daniel Mendler via "Bug reports
> for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <
> bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org> said:
>     >> (defun savehist--manage-timer ()
>     >> ;; should be
>     >> (run-with-timer savehist-autosave-interval
>     >> savehist-autosave-interval #'savehist-autosave))
>     >> ;; not silly t
>     >> (run-with-timer savehist-autosave-interval t #'savehist-autosave))
>
>     Daniel> To clarify, with the argument t, the timer does not run
> repeatedly, but
>     Daniel> only once. That's the problem. Btw I wonder if it would make
> sense to
>     Daniel> allow Stéphane's calling convention too and just dtrt. It is
> not
>     Daniel> obviously silly imo.
>
> No need:
>
>     (run-with-timer t savehist-autosave-interval #'savehist-autosave)
>
> already works, although the docstring and the manual donʼt make this
> clear, you need to read the manual for `run-at-time' attentively.
>

Funny perhaps I did that at the time, but I prefer the more precise form.

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