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hook syntax (was: Re: how to get around deprecated function)


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: hook syntax (was: Re: how to get around deprecated function)
Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 05:55:10 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux)

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> By the way, and people probably have different views
> on this, but I think all that add-hook stuff is
> confusing. It is better to find out what the hook
> is. Offen it is empty or consists of a single or but
> a few items. Examine what is there and decide if you
> want it. Then set up the hook explicitly, e.g.
>
>     (setq perl-mode-hook 'enable-line-mode) ; Perl
>
> But there is nothing wrong with add-hook and I use
> it sometimes dynamically. But in init files, I don't
> see why not setting up the hooks explicitly offers
> a higher degree of clarity and control.

As I expected, in the docs it says you should use
add-hook:

(info "(emacs)Hooks")

    You can set a hook variable with ‘setq’ like any
    other Lisp variable, but the recommended way to
    add a function to a hook ... is to use ‘add-hook’
    
(info "(elisp)Hooks")

    The recommended way to add a hook function to a hook
    is by calling ‘add-hook’

However, I have many (10-20) hooks set like this:

    (setq perl-mode-hook 'enable-line-mode)

This gets

    perl-mode-hook ; => enable-line-mode

If I do

    (setq perl-mode-hook nil)
    (add-hook 'perl-mode-hook 'enable-line-mode)

I get

    perl-mode-hook ; => (enable-line-mode)

The "incorrect" syntax always worked, until I just now
found that for `message-mode-hook' I must do

    (setq message-mode-hook '(disable-super-global-keys))

So maybe I should retract my piece of advice. Or at
least, if the setq method is to be used, make it
a list (even for singular functions) at the first
sight of trouble. Because that might be just it...

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