Mercurial > emacs
changeset 76852:41edad8d60f6
(run-at-time): Doc fix.
| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:22:35 +0000 |
| parents | 2ad252ac976c |
| children | 4218ede6f4f2 |
| files | lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el Sat Mar 31 20:41:32 2007 +0000 +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el Sat Mar 31 23:22:35 2007 +0000 @@ -360,11 +360,16 @@ (defun run-at-time (time repeat function &rest args) "Perform an action at time TIME. Repeat the action every REPEAT seconds, if REPEAT is non-nil. -TIME should be a string like \"11:23pm\", nil meaning now, a number of seconds -from now, a value from `current-time', or t (with non-nil REPEAT) -meaning the next integral multiple of REPEAT. -REPEAT may be an integer or floating point number. -The action is to call FUNCTION with arguments ARGS. +TIME should be one of: a string giving an absolute time like +\"11:23pm\" (the acceptable formats are those recognized by +`diary-entry-time'; note that such times are interpreted as times +today, even if in the past); a string giving a relative time like +\"2 hours 35 minutes\" (the acceptable formats are those +recognized by `timer-duration'); nil meaning now; a number of +seconds from now; a value from `encode-time'; or t (with non-nil +REPEAT) meaning the next integral multiple of REPEAT. REPEAT may +be an integer or floating point number. The action is to call +FUNCTION with arguments ARGS. This function returns a timer object which you can use in `cancel-timer'." (interactive "sRun at time: \nNRepeat interval: \naFunction: ") @@ -385,7 +390,7 @@ (if (numberp time) (setq time (timer-relative-time (current-time) time))) - ;; Handle relative times like "2 hours and 35 minutes" + ;; Handle relative times like "2 hours 35 minutes" (if (stringp time) (let ((secs (timer-duration time))) (if secs