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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2025 10:56:03 +0300

> 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?