Subject: Re: bug#79227: 30.1.90; run-with-timer should error if REPEAT is not a number or nil

From: Spencer Baugh <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 08:55:23 -0400

On Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 3:56 AM Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:26:14 -0400
> > From:  Spencer Baugh via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
> >  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <[email-masked]>
> >
> >
> > The docstring of run-with-timer says REPEAT must be a number or nil, but
> > it doesn't error if REPEAT is, for example, t.  This is likely to happen
> > with run-with-idle-timer accepts REPEAT=t.
>
> Thanks, should be fixed now on the master branch.
>
> I don't understand your reference to run-with-idle-timer, though: for
> idle timers, it is perfectly valid to use REPEAT = t.  Did you mean
> run-with-timer instead?
>

I mean when code previously used run-with-idle-timer and is changed to use
run-with-timer instead, without looking closely at the arguments.