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Re: Pass an argument to a sentinel?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Pass an argument to a sentinel?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 09:21:11 +0300

> 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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