[Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 0ae9a81: Document 'timerp'

[Eli Zaretskii]

branch: emacs-25
commit 0ae9a816b9f68bd3f50fc287a342237c8b4fe78d
Author: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>

    Document 'timerp'
    
    * doc/lispref/os.texi (Timers): Document 'timerp'.  (Bug#24511)
    Improve indexing.
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 doc/lispref/os.texi |   11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/lispref/os.texi b/doc/lispref/os.texi
index ec14b01..0d999ae 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/os.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/os.texi
@@ -1727,10 +1727,17 @@ This function returns @code{t} if @var{year} is a leap 
year.
 
 @node Timers
 @section Timers for Delayed Execution
address@hidden timer
address@hidden timers
 
   You can set up a @dfn{timer} to call a function at a specified
-future time or after a certain length of idleness.
+future time or after a certain length of idleness.  A timer is a
+special object that stores the information about the next invocation
+times and the function to invoke.
+
address@hidden timerp object
+This predicate function returns address@hidden of @code{object} is a
+timer.
address@hidden defun
 
   Emacs cannot run timers at any arbitrary point in a Lisp program; it
 can run them only when Emacs could accept output from a subprocess: