Re: elisp macros problem

[David Kastrup]

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Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:

>  > (defmacro my-add-hook (hook &rest body)
>  >   `(add-hook ',(intern (concat (symbol-name hook) "-mode-hook"))
>  >         (lambda () ,@body)))
>  >
> 
> I just tried it out and it doesn't seem to work. I tried both:
> 
> (my-add-hook 'emacs-lisp (keyboard-translate ?\( ?\[))
>               ^

Which is wrong.

> and
> 
> (my-add-hook emacs-lisp (keyboard-translate ?\( ?\[))

Which results here in:

emacs-lisp-mode-hook's value is 
((lambda nil
   (keyboard-translate 40 91)))


Hook run when entering Emacs Lisp mode.

You can customize this variable.

Defined in `emacs-lisp/lisp-mode'.

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Looks fine to me.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum