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Re: mention other ways than add-hook also


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: Re: mention other ways than add-hook also
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 09:52:16 +0800

rms>     In the manual, after all the setq hook examples were changed to
rms>     add-hook examples, users end up with miles long hooks as they adjust
rms>     their hooks without starting a new emacs.

rms> I don't quite understand.  Are you saying that people add various
rms> versions of the same hook without removing old versions?

I mean in the course of adjusting their .emacs, they might use a lot
of eval-last-sexp, eval-region, etc., upon which their hooks just grow
and grow, with results perhaps OK, but not necessarily the same as
what will be when they start a fresh emacs the next day.

So mention that problem, and mention that somebody else might be
tampering with their hooks beyond the bounds of their .emacs file[?!]
so that is why they should still use add-hook... or maybe if they only
adjust the hook in one spot in their .emacs, they can use setq hook.




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