add-timeout doc fix

[gnu-emacs] / lisp / emacs-lisp / timer.el

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el
index 2aca26cf1666c134870f9a70ca224ebfe737b6dd..c01ea4973c72a451102ce2127a92096c7dbfd4b9 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/timer.el
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ;;; timer.el --- run a function with args at some time in future
 
-;; Copyright (C) 1996, 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1996, 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Maintainer: emacs-devel@gnu.org
 ;; Package: emacs
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ TIME should be one of:
 - a string giving today's time like \"11:23pm\"
   (the acceptable formats are HHMM, H:MM, HH:MM, HHam, HHAM,
   HHpm, HHPM, HH:MMam, HH:MMAM, HH:MMpm, or HH:MMPM;
-  a period '.' can be used instead of a colon ':' to separate
+  a period `.' can be used instead of a colon `:' to separate
   the hour and minute parts);
 - a string giving a relative time like \"90\" or \"2 hours 35 minutes\"
   (the acceptable forms are a number of seconds without units
@@ -424,6 +424,8 @@ This function returns a timer object which you can use in `cancel-timer'."
 (defun add-timeout (secs function object &optional repeat)
   "Add a timer to run SECS seconds from now, to call FUNCTION on OBJECT.
 If REPEAT is non-nil, repeat the timer every REPEAT seconds.
+
+This function returns a timer object which you can use in `cancel-timer'.
 This function is for compatibility; see also `run-with-timer'."
   (run-with-timer secs repeat function object))