Re: elisp macros problem

[Lowell Kirsh]

Rahul Jain wrote:
> You probably mean "why does this not do X?" but you never tell us what X
> is, so we don't know how to help you achieve that.

What I meant was why does this not do the obvoious thing I want it to do...

> Hint: you might want to macroexpand-1 a sample usage of the macro and
> see if it expands to what you desired.
>
> According to your definition:
> (my-add-hooks '(lisp-mode-hook emacs-lisp-mode-hook)
>   ...)
> <=>
> (dolist (hook '(lisp-mode-hook emacs-lisp-mode-hook))
>   (my-add-hook hook ...))
>
> Is that what you wanted?

Almost. The call should actually be

(my-add-hooks '(lisp emacs-lisp)
   ...)

And yes, that is what I wanted.

Lowell