Re: run-at-time capricious

[...] Yes, I also noticed it. (start-itimer NAME FUNCTION VALUE &optional RESTART IS-IDLE WITH-ARGS &rest FUNCTION-ARGUMENTS) And I guess the reason nnheader-xmas-run-at-time was made such style (by Lars?) is that start-itimer regards neither WITH-ARGS nor FUNCTION-ARGUMENTS. (start-itimer "testing1" (lambda (&rest args) (message "Args: %s" args)) 1 nil nil '("WITH-ARGS")) => Args: nil (start-itimer "testing2" (lambda (&rest args) (message "Args: %s" args)) 1 nil nil nil "FUNCTION-ARGUMENTS") => Args: nil That is, the itimer interface is also incomplete. Thanks. I confirmed both cases work very quickly. :-p By the way, when the first argument of run-at-time was nil or zero, I noticed it working correctly yesterday, and made the following functions. As far as I can know, it completely works correctly. Probably it will replace nnheader-xmas-run-at-time. I look for more smart solution for a while. (defun run-at-time-in-the-right-way (time repeat function &rest args) "Emulating function run as `run-at-time' in the right way. Return a timer object which can be use in `cancel-timer'." (if (or (not time) (= 0 time)) (apply #'run-at-time nil repeat function args) (let ((timers (list nil))) (setcar timers (apply #'run-at-time nil time (lambda (timers repeat function &rest args) (if repeat (timer-set-function (car timers) (lambda (timer repeat function &rest args) (timer-set-time timer (list 0 0 0) repeat) (timer-set-function timer function args) (apply function args)) (append timers (list repeat function) args)) (timer-set-function (car timers) (lambda (timer function &rest args) (cancel-timer timer) (apply function args)) (append timers (list function) args)))) timers repeat function args))))) -- Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka(a)jpl.org&gt;