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bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel
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Ram Bhamidipaty |
Subject: |
bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Dec 2015 17:45:22 +0000 |
This is what I ran into: I am working on some code using the emacs process
facility. And I started seeing messages (from the default sentinel) that I did
not expect. When I _skimmed_ through the sentinel section I did not notice that
a default sentinel is added to all processes. I acknowledge that skimming the
docs was not the right thing to do - since I missed the fact that there is a
default sentinel.
>From my point of view - I would have been nice - if the default sentinel info
>were a bit more prominent.
So - I proposed that the name and behavior of the default sentinel be
documented. It might not be needed - in the sense that the name itself is not
required - but if there were a block of text in the info section like "--
Function: xxx default-sentinel" that would be more prominent - and probably
harder to miss.
-Ram
-----Original Message-----
From: John Wiegley [mailto:jwiegley@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 9:34 AM
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Ram Bhamidipaty <rbhamidipaty@roku.com>; 22220@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> It would be nice if the default process sentinel were explicitly documented
>> - at least the name and formal description.
> As for the name, why is that important? You can always get it installed for
> the process using nil as the argument to set-process-sentinel, and the
> implementation is in C, so how would the name help?
I must admit to a similar confusion. Aside from the fact that more could be
said: does more need to be said?
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- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, Ram Bhamidipaty, 2015/12/21
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/22
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, Ram Bhamidipaty, 2015/12/22
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/22
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, John Wiegley, 2015/12/23
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel,
Ram Bhamidipaty <=
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/23
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, Ram Bhamidipaty, 2015/12/23
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, John Wiegley, 2015/12/23
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, Ram Bhamidipaty, 2015/12/23
- bug#22220: 24.5; no documentation for default process sentinel, Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/23