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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2002-04-07 18:58:06 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> | 2002-04-07 18:58:06 +0000 |
| commit | 8a56d8ed331be880a2f7be05b15886bd7acb269d (patch) | |
| tree | 584ffbdd4aff77347e6e0d7342cf71e07258573d /lispref | |
| parent | 39296e3af82fef4a3d06b2b3e91bacd46a0593d8 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-8a56d8ed331be880a2f7be05b15886bd7acb269d.tar.gz | |
Explain that sentinels cannot run recursively.
Diffstat (limited to 'lispref')
| -rw-r--r-- | lispref/processes.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lispref/processes.texi b/lispref/processes.texi index 81023719429..0b5786f2cd8 100644 --- a/lispref/processes.texi +++ b/lispref/processes.texi @@ -1297,6 +1297,11 @@ programs was running when the sentinel was started. However, if off. This makes it possible to use the Lisp debugger to debug the sentinel. @xref{Debugger}. + While a sentinel is running, the process sentinel is temporarily +set to @code{nil} so that the sentinel won't run recursively. +For this reason it is not possible for a sentinel to specify +a new sentinel. + In earlier Emacs versions, every sentinel that did regular expression searching or matching had to explicitly save and restore the match data. Now Emacs does this automatically for sentinels; they never need to do |