From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Pass an argument to a sentinel? Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 09:21:11 +0300 Message-ID: <831soz4vc8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <88f84448-db99-8325-71fd-b7d0489d874f@riseup.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1501309320 30981 195.159.176.226 (29 Jul 2017 06:22:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 06:22:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 29 08:21:54 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dbL8M-0007kc-2i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 08:21:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51298 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbL8R-0000Zp-Jf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 02:21:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47151) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbL7r-0000Zh-Qw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 02:21:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbL7o-0004li-Nm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 02:21:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44888) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dbL7o-0004lV-Ka for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 02:21:20 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4093 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dbL7o-0002Rh-13 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jul 2017 02:21:20 -0400 In-reply-to: <88f84448-db99-8325-71fd-b7d0489d874f@riseup.net> (message from Yassin Philip on Fri, 28 Jul 2017 21:16:14 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113906 Archived-At: > From: Yassin Philip > 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.