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changeset 1983:f7da227e3e68
* timer.el (run-at-time): Doc fix.
| author | Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> |
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| date | Tue, 02 Mar 1993 07:33:41 +0000 |
| parents | d65c1fefc636 |
| children | e0c7208bdafa |
| files | lisp/=timer.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/=timer.el Tue Mar 02 07:33:17 1993 +0000 +++ b/lisp/=timer.el Tue Mar 02 07:33:41 1993 +0000 @@ -36,7 +36,19 @@ Arguments are TIME, REPEAT, FUNCTION &rest ARGS. TIME, a string, can be specified absolutely or relative to now. REPEAT, an integer number of seconds, is the interval on which to repeat -the call to the function. If REPEAT is nil, call it just once." +the call to the function. If REPEAT is nil, call it just once. + +Absolute times may be specified in a wide variety of formats; +Something of the form `HOUR:MIN:SEC TIMEZONE MONTH/DAY/YEAR', where +all fields are numbers, will work; the format used by the Unix `date' +command will work too. + +Relative times may be specified as a series of numbers followed by units: + 1 min denotes one minute from now. + min does too. + 1 min 5 sec denotes 65 seconds from now. + 1 min 2 sec 3 hour 4 day 5 week 6 fortnight 7 month 8 year + denotes the sum of all the given durations from now." (interactive "sRun at time: \nNRepeat interval: \naFunction: ") (cond ((or (not timer-process) (memq (process-status timer-process) '(exit signal nil)))