From 100b635576e4075dd48aac63b3e460cf5143777d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ken Raeburn Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:36:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document fixing of load-in-progress corruption. --- etc/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ etc/NEWS | 7 +++++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog index bc5cbb3d271..2af52400dbd 100644 --- a/etc/ChangeLog +++ b/etc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2009-07-23 Ken Raeburn + + * NEWS: `load-in-progress' corruption fixed. + 2009-07-21 Glenn Morris * refcards/cs-dired-ref.tex, refcards/dired-ref.tex: diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index f8496f9779b..ccd13a50402 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ becomes the primary selection (for interaction with other window 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 -- 2.39.2