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bug#48584: 28.0.50; Incorrect hook ordering between local and global hoo
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Philipp |
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bug#48584: 28.0.50; Incorrect hook ordering between local and global hooks with depth |
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Mon, 5 Jul 2021 20:37:16 +0200 |
> Am 06.06.2021 um 11:12 schrieb Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>
> Philipp <p.stephani2@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> If I'm reading run_hook_with_args correctly, it'll loop over the local
>>> hook first (in order), and when it happens upon a t in that value, it'll
>>> then loop over the global value (in order), and then finish up the rest
>>> of the local ones.
>>
>> Yes - and that's a reasonable behavior to expect, and we should document it.
>
> I think it's an implementation detail that users should not depend on.
> Where that `t' ends up being depends on many subtle things like the
> order of your add-hook/remove-hook calls in your .emacs file.
What we think about this doesn't matter much. As I explained, people depend on
observable/observed behavior.
Besides, hook ordering for abnormal hooks is crucial, so we can't just say
"don't depend on it."
>
>> Correct hook ordering is crucial for abnormal hooks. We already rely
>> on the very specific ordering behavior several times in the Emacs
>> codebase alone. I've searched a bit through the Emacs codebase, and
>> found the following places where Emacs runs an abnormal hook with
>> `run-hook-with-args-until-success/failure' that also gains a local
>> part somewhere the codebase:
>
> [...]
>
>> That is, we rely on this "undefined" behavior already in very basic
>> operations such as saving buffers to file. In Eldoc, we even
>> explicitly tell users to add functions to the local part of this
>> abnormal hook (eldoc-documentation-functions), thereby telling them to
>> rely on "undefined" behavior! This hopefully shows that the behavior
>> is far from being undefined.
>
> I don't think it shows any such thing.
Why not? Clearly there are hooks that are both abnormal and partially-local in
the Emacs codebase, and for those hooks this issue arises.
>
> I think it'd be a good idea to implement (and document) something in
> this area that actually allows users to control the hook running order
> properly, which currently just isn't possible.
>
Yes, and arguably the current implementation with the "shadow" ordering stored
in a private symbol property is already kind of a hack. However, the
second-best option is still to document the current behavior. As I've tried to
explain, just stating "it's undefined" won't fly.
- bug#48584: 28.0.50; Incorrect hook ordering between local and global hooks with depth,
Philipp <=