From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pass an argument to a sentinel?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 12:54:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkRimBt0YVSgAJsucJg_uoGP5s7_B4i9zjqO+xCX-jc5YA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831soz4vc8.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> schrieb am Sa., 29. Juli 2017 um 08:22 Uhr:
> > From: Yassin Philip <philcm@gnu.org>
> > Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:16:14 +0100
> >
> > "The sentinel receives /two arguments/: the process for which the
> > event occurred, and a string describing the type of event."
> >
> > But I need it to receive at least one more argument, because at the end
> > of the process, the context (like the buffer at the time of the sentinel
> > call) may have changed.
> >
> > How can I pass arguments to a sentinel?
>
> One way is to have a global variable with those additional values.
> Another is to put a property on the process object whose value
> provides those arguments.
>
>
The third (and most generic) way is to use a lexical closure.
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2017-07-28 20:16 Pass an argument to a sentinel? Yassin Philip
2017-07-29 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-29 12:54 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
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