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Document fixing of load-in-progress corruption.
author Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
date Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:36:49 +0000
parents 48eee3db3afa
children 7d9bf219df36
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Wed Jul 22 16:03:39 2009 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Thu Jul 23 00:36:49 2009 +0000
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@
 applications).  If you enable this, you might want to bind
 `mouse-yank-primary' to Mouse-2.
 
+** The variable `load-in-progress' won't get corrupted by binding it
+with `let'.  In certain situations, loading an Emacs Lisp file from
+source while in the midst of loading another file (e.g., with
+`require' or `autoload') could cause the value of `load-in-progress'
+to be corrupted once the outer load completed.  Most code doesn't care
+about this, but some (like c-mode) may check it.
+
 
 * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 23.2