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Re: a mode-specific hack-local-variables-hook ?
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Sam Halliday |
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Re: a mode-specific hack-local-variables-hook ? |
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Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:19:47 -0700 (PDT) |
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Fantastic! Perfect for my needs. I was looking at the docs for all the wrong
things.
On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 22:06:34 UTC+1, John Mastro wrote:
> > I did this in my major mode hook, thinking that it would just add it
> > to the current mode's hooks, but it seems to be a global hook. Other
> > than putting in an "(if (eq major-mode 'scala-mode) ... )" type test
> > in a lambda (outside of my major mode hook), is there any other way to
> > set a buffer-local hack-local-variables-hook?
>
> The function `add-hook' has an optional fourth argument, LOCAL, about
> which the `add-hook' docstring says:
>
> The optional fourth argument, LOCAL, if non-nil, says to modify
> the hook's buffer-local value rather than its global value.
> This makes the hook buffer-local, and it makes t a member of the
> buffer-local value. That acts as a flag to run the hook
> functions of the global value as well as in the local value.
>
> Does this do what you need?
>
> (add-hook 'hack-local-variables-hook 'whitespace-mode nil t)
>
> --
> john