Re: Adding to ps-print-hook problems

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jeff Rancier wrote:

> Hi all.  I wanted to create a simple function to prompt me for the n-up
> number of pages to print when I run the function,
> ps-print-buffer-with-faces.  Here's what I came up with:
>
> (defun jbr-ps-print-n-up-hook (number-of-pages)
>   (interactive "nN-up number of pages: ")
>   (setq ps-n-up-printing number-of-pages))
>
> (add-hook 'ps-print-hook 'jbr-ps-print-n-up-hook)
>
> I thought that was pretty straight forward.  When I select that from the
> menu-bar, I get the following in my *Messages* buffer:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-number-of-arguments (lambda
> (number-of-pages) (interactive "nN-up number of pages: ") (setq
> ps-n-up-printing number-of-pages)) 0)
>   jbr-ps-print-n-up-hook()
>   run-hooks(ps-print-hook)
>   ps-spool-with-faces(1 2947 nil)
>   ps-print-with-faces(1 2947 nil)
>   ps-print-buffer-with-faces(nil)
> * call-interactively(ps-print-buffer-with-faces)
>
> Is that the wrong-number-of-arguments to run-hooks?  And if so, is that a
> bug in ps-print?  Or am I incorrectly writing my hook,
> jbr-ps-print-n-up-hook?  I am simply calling ps-print-buffer-with-faces()
> incorrectly, now that it is interactive?


Hook functions are always called with no arguments, but your function requires

one argument.  Just make it optional:

(defun jbr-ps-print-n-up-hook (optional number-of-pages)
  ...)

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Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com>