Re: post-self-insert-hook being reset?

[Sam Halliday]

On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 17:31:41 UTC+1, Phil Lord  wrote:
> There are a class of hooks (post-command-hook, after-change-functions) that 
> nil themselves on error.
> 
> This normally happens at the C layer, and is there to prevent Emacs from 
> getting hung. I guess post-self-insert-hook 
> is one of these.
> 
> It's a PITA to debug from lisp I am afraid.

Thanks. The weird thing is it looks like just this one hook is being removed... 
does that sound right? If that's the case I can start to look at putting some 
error handling into the hook and find the bug.

> ________________________________________
> Sent: 17 June 2015 17:02
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using smartparens and it adds a really useful post-self-insert-hook 
> called sp--post-self-insert-hook-handler.
> 
> However, after a while of just general editing, the hook disappears!
> 
> I've grepped my entire config, all my packages from MELPA etc, to see if 
> anything is resetting the post-self-insert-hook list, but everything looks 
> well behaved.
> 
> Is there any standard emacs package, or error handling, that would remove a 
> hook for some reason?
> 
> FYI, my .emacs https://github.com/fommil/dotfiles/blob/master/.emacs.d/init.el
> 
> Best regards,
> Sam