bug#5126: 23.1; checkdoc-comment-style-hooks stops at first error

[Kevin Ryde]

checkdoc-comment-style-hooks is run by checkdoc-file-comments-engine
with run-hook-with-args-until-success, which means if one of the hook
functions returns an error string (as described in the hook's docstring)
then no further functions are run.

I hoped the hook functions would instead run like the builtin checks of
checkdoc-file-comments-engine,

    (setq err (or (some check)
                  err))

so that all checks are always run, with an error reported if any one of
them reports an error.

Or alternately perhaps I misunderstand the docstring of
checkdoc-comment-style-hooks, and that a "problem discovered" means
something fatal and unrecoverable, or something, and that hook functions
should almost always return nil no matter what they find.


I threw down the few lines below for a hook run which returns the last
true value, but I'm not sure I like it much.  An alternative to picking
out a list of functions from a hook might be a
"run-hook-with-accumulator-function" or even a "map-hook" -- unless that
exists already.

(defun checkdoc-run-hooks-last-true (hookvar)
  "Run hooks in HOOKVAR and return the last true value."
  (let (ret)
    (dolist (func (checkdoc-hook-functions hookvar))
      (setq ret (or (funcall func) ret)))))

(defun checkdoc-hook-functions (hookvar)
  "Return a list of functions HOOKVAR should run.
HOOKVAR can be a single function or list of functions, the return
is always a list.  `t' in a buffer-local value means use the
global `default-value' at that point, and it can likewise be a
function or list."
  (let ((hooks (symbol-value hookvar)))
    (if (and hooks
             ;; same test as run_hook_with_args()
             (or (not (consp hooks))
                 (eq 'lambda (car hooks))))
        (list hooks) ;; single function listified

      ;; expand `t' to global value
      (apply 'append
             (mapcar (lambda (func)
                       (if (eq t func)
                           (let ((global (default-value hookvar)))
                             ;; same test as run_hook_with_args()
                             (if (or (not (consp global))
                                     (eq 'lambda (car global)))
                                 (list global)
                               global))
                         (list func)))
                     hooks)))))




In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.16.5)
 of 2009-09-14 on raven, modified by Debian
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' 
'--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' 
'--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' 
'--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim'
 '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 
'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g 
-O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

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