Document fixing of load-in-progress corruption.

100b6355 · Ken Raeburn · c902b920 · 100b6355 · 100b6355
Commit 100b6355 authored Jul 23, 2009 by Ken Raeburn
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+2009-07-23  Ken Raeburn  <raeburn@raeburn.org>
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+	* NEWS: `load-in-progress' corruption fixed.
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 2009-07-21  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>

 	* refcards/cs-dired-ref.tex, refcards/dired-ref.tex:

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@@ -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