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Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> With the hack you can have different values for N and Y, so Emacs
> can be idle for 10 minutes, then run a function every 1 minute or 1
> hour after that.  That is, if I correctly understand what the "hack"
> does.

I think the `itimer' interface in XEmacs supports this, because it
allows different integer values for VALUE and RESTART.  However,
changing the code so it works differently for different timer
libraries is probably not worth the trouble.

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