changeset 104031:e5dc7eae1964

Document fixing of load-in-progress corruption.
author Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
date Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:36:49 +0000
parents 91b945d54645
children 6813b59a55fa
files etc/ChangeLog etc/NEWS
diffstat 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/ChangeLog	Wed Jul 22 16:03:39 2009 +0000
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog	Thu Jul 23 00:36:49 2009 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-07-23  Ken Raeburn  <raeburn@raeburn.org>
+
+	* NEWS: `load-in-progress' corruption fixed.
+
 2009-07-21  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
 	* refcards/cs-dired-ref.tex, refcards/dired-ref.tex:
--- 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