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RE: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:41:56 -0700 (PDT) |
> >> If you do this, then you will break the callers, which expect the
> >> value of this variable to be a single function.
> >
> > Tell that to the doc string for `add-hook', which has said what it
> > says in this regard for a very long time.
>
> There is no contradiction between the two. `add-hook's doc talks about
> the case where a "multiple-function hook" has a value which happens to
> be a single function (which is an acceptable value for those hooks, for
> historical reasons).
That's one interpretation. There is no mention of the fact that
the hook it is talking about is necessarily a "multiple-function
hook" that happens to have a single function as value.
> Whereas we're here talking about "single-function hooks", i.e. variables
> which should only ever hold a single function and not a list of functions.
>
> You can use (add-hook <hook> <function>) on them, just like you can use
> (setq <hook> 5) on them. That doesn't mean that it's correct to do so.
If you say so. Who decided it is incorrect, and why? As I noted,
previously it was not a no-no to use `add-hook' on such a hook,
and `add-hook' was specifically designed to handle the case of a
single function (whether "'multiple-function hook' that happens
to have a single function as value" or "single-function hook").
And unlike what you just said (you can but it is not correct to
do so - or is it just not necessarily correct?), the doc now says:
"‘add-hook’ cannot be used to modify such a _single function
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
hook_, and you have to use ‘add-function’ instead (*note
^^^^^^^^^^^
Advising Functions::)."
I wonder who added that sentence. ;-)
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, (continued)
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Noam Postavsky, 2016/10/17
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Stefan Monnier, 2016/10/17
- RE: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Drew Adams, 2016/10/17
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Stefan Monnier, 2016/10/17
- RE: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Drew Adams, 2016/10/17
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Stefan Monnier, 2016/10/17
- RE: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Drew Adams, 2016/10/17
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Noam Postavsky, 2016/10/17
- RE: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Drew Adams, 2016/10/17
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Stefan Monnier, 2016/10/17
- RE: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Stefan Monnier, 2016/10/17
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Richard Stallman, 2016/10/18
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/19
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Richard Stallman, 2016/10/19
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Stefan Monnier, 2016/10/19
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/20
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/20
- Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example, Richard Stallman, 2016/10/20