Re: Killing timers and buffer local variables

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Johan Bockgård wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > If a timer is referenced with a buffer local variable and the corresponing
> > > buffer goes away it is quite cumbersome to kill the timer if it is
> > > a periodic timer.
> > > How about adding a self referencing functions for timers to make this
> > > easier, something like (this-timer)?
> > That's a good idea.  Patch welcome,
>
> (defun timer-this-timer () timer-event-last)

That was a fast one ;-)

Maybe it is sufficient to document this in

  (info "(elisp) Timers")