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| author | Richard M. Stallman <[email protected]> | 2006-09-24 20:39:52 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <[email protected]> | 2006-09-24 20:39:52 +0000 |
| commit | e00c3f6fb6adb73db3ffcdf4bf69a125c49e5b6c (patch) | |
| tree | 758f72992b7265bfb8691643069131774a674205 /lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el | |
| parent | 76a1a8a64f5b581d63b981361a8698c99de5dbdc (diff) | |
(timer-max-repeats): Doc fix.
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| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el index 54c5aff305..0c66a20735 100644 --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el @@ -300,7 +300,11 @@ and idle timers such as are scheduled by `run-with-idle-timer'." "Third-to-last timer that was run.") (defvar timer-max-repeats 10 - "*Maximum number of times to repeat a timer, if real time jumps.") + "*Maximum number of times to repeat a timer, if many repeats are delayed. +Timer invocations can be delayed because Emacs is suspended or busy, +or because the system's time changes. If such an occurrence makes it +appear that many invocations are overdue, this variable controls +how many will really happen.") (defun timer-until (timer time) "Calculate number of seconds from when TIMER will run, until TIME. |