Re: Suggestion to add before and after hooks to posn-set-point.

[Robert Weiner]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 10:21 PM, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

> It seems as of Emacs 25, there are no hooks in posn-set-point to do
> something custom before or after point has been set/moved.

There are various ways to do things very similar to what posn-set-point
does, so a hook on this function seems rather odd to me: it will only
catch some window selections and some point movements.

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IOW I find it difficult to characterize when these hooks will be run

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(except with the trivial characterization that they're run when

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posn-set-point is run, which is not very meaningful since no command is

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documented to use this function).

​FYI, the initial desire for these hooks came from wanting to do something whenever the mouse set point.

Then I thought it would be more useful if it covered any interactive setting of point, which led to posn-set-point

(called by mouse-set-point).  If there are better ways to do this, let's discuss them.

Bob​​