Re: interactive write hook failure stops subsequent write hook?

[Jim Meyering]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:

>> and the fact that I use this:
>>   (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'copyright-update)
>
> You should use (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'copyright-update).
>
> Are you sure you don't have some other version of copyright.el lying around
> in your load-path?
> copyright.el's copyright-update function ends with:
>
>       (set (make-local-variable 'copyright-update) nil)))
>     ;; If a write-file-hook returns non-nil, the file is presumed to be 
> written.
>     nil))
>
> which should make sure it always returns nil specifically to avoid the
> problem you mention.

Thanks for the tip and explanation.

Using a snapshot from CVS of a few days ago I can
no longer reproduce the problem.  I never had another
copy of copyright.el.