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From: Gordon Beaton <n.o.t@for.email>
Subject: Re: passing data to process sentinel
Date: 16 Sep 2006 07:37:02 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <450ba99e$0$19430$8404b019@news.wineasy.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6985.1158339733.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:01:15 -0600, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Backquote is your friend:
>
>    (set-process-sentinel
>      (start-process "tkdiff" nil "tkdiff" (buffer-file-name) temp-file)
>      `(lambda (process event)
>        (if (file-exists-p ,temp-file) (delete-file ,temp-file))))

Thank you! I had tried backquoting but it was the commas I didn't
think about.

I also realized after posting that I could get the file name from
(process-command process) in the sentinel, but I was more interested
in a solution like the above that works in the general case, where the
information isn't on the command line.

/gordon

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-16  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-15 11:17 passing data to process sentinel Gordon Beaton
2006-09-15 17:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found] ` <mailman.6985.1158339733.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-16  7:37   ` Gordon Beaton [this message]
2006-09-18 12:42 ` Johan Bockgård
2006-09-18 13:45   ` Gordon Beaton

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