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Re: Why call font-lock-add-keywords in a mode hook?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Why call font-lock-add-keywords in a mode hook? |
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Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:14:58 -0500 |
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> My question: why would I want to call this function in a hook if I can
> specify the mode in its invocation?
Because the other use is fundamentally unclean, requiring
a re-implementation of major-mode's inheritance, whereas you get it for
free if you use nil for `mode' and call it from the mode's hook instead.
Stefan