Re: Timer does not delay

Jan Vroonhof writes: > Pete Forman <gsez020(a)kryten.bedford.waii.com&gt; writes: > > > This code should post a message after a delay of 10 seconds. > > Only the third method (sleep-for) works. The first two > > execute the message function immediately, or very quickly. > > > > (run-at-time 10 nil 'message "pwf run-at-time") > > ("itimer-0" 9.999781 nil message nil t ("pwf run-at-time") (0 0 0)) > > The problem seems to be that only the first time out isn't > working... I assume this is using the timer.el compatbility package. What version of XEmacs was used and how was it compiled?

If I provide a REPEAT argument to run-at-time, it still executes the function immediately but thereafter repeats at the proper interval. The version is 21.1 (patch 7) "Biscayne" XEmacs Lucid running on AIX 4.3.2. I see the same problem with 20.3 plus fsf-compat/timer.el on Solaris 2.6 and on IRIX 6.5. The above code works on Emacs 19.34.