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[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/processes.texi
From: |
Richard M. Stallman |
Subject: |
[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/lispref/processes.texi |
Date: |
Sun, 07 Apr 2002 14:58:06 -0400 |
Index: emacs/lispref/processes.texi
diff -c emacs/lispref/processes.texi:1.25 emacs/lispref/processes.texi:1.26
*** emacs/lispref/processes.texi:1.25 Tue Apr 2 16:20:16 2002
--- emacs/lispref/processes.texi Sun Apr 7 14:58:06 2002
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*** 1297,1302 ****
--- 1297,1307 ----
off. This makes it possible to use the Lisp debugger to debug the
sentinel. @xref{Debugger}.
+ While a sentinel is running, the process sentinel is temporarily
+ set to @code{nil} so that the sentinel won't run recursively.
+ For this reason it is not possible for a sentinel to specify
+ a new sentinel.
+
In earlier Emacs versions, every sentinel that did regular expression
searching or matching had to explicitly save and restore the match data.
Now Emacs does this automatically for sentinels; they never need to do