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Re: execute defun on reception of signal


From: Andy Moreton
Subject: Re: execute defun on reception of signal
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 09:28:39 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (windows-nt)

On Sun 12 Jul 2015, Rusi wrote:

> On Monday, July 13, 2015 at 12:24:48 AM UTC+5:30, Andy Moreton wrote:
>> On Sun 12 Jul 2015, Emanuel Berg wrote:
>> 
>> > Andy Moreton writes:
>> >
>> >> This is documented in the info "(elisp) Misc Events"
>> >> node, which you could have easily found yourself.
>> >
>> > Ridiculous. Go fly I kite - if you know how.
>> 
>> There is no need to be rude.
>> 
>> The elisp manual includes full documentation with example code, at the
>> location I pointed out. There is no need to repeat that information
>> here.
>> 
>> If you are too lazy to read the docs then you will struggle to find
>> people willing to help you.
>
> In all fairness, I thought the question interesting and spent some 10-15 
> minutes
> searching an answer.... to no avail.

Google finds the right page if you search for "emacs SIGUSR1"

In emacs, you can find the info page with:
     C-h i d m elisp RET i SIGUSR1 RET

> OTOH I generally find google usually gives a more pointed answer quicker than 
> manually searching the docs. This may well be some kind of exception....

Both can be useful. The info pages have good indexes that are usually a
quick way of finding the answer.

    AndyM




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