From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Pass an argument to a sentinel?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 09:21:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831soz4vc8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88f84448-db99-8325-71fd-b7d0489d874f@riseup.net> (message from Yassin Philip on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:16:14 +0100)
> 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.
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2017-07-28 20:16 Pass an argument to a sentinel? Yassin Philip
2017-07-29 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-07-29 12:54 ` Philipp Stephani
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