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Re: prevent hook vanishing


From: akrl
Subject: Re: prevent hook vanishing
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 14:42:44 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.3 (berkeley-unix)

John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com> writes:

> Why not use `condition-case' in your hook function to catch the error
> and respond appropriately? (There are also `with-demoted-errors' and
> `ignore-errors', if there's nothing that needs to be except to suppress
> the error)
>
>          John

Doesn't quite work. I wrap the hooked code around using ignore-errors,
then for instance if I get the following error (from *Messages*):
"Symbol's value as variable is void"
the hook is wiped out.

Bests
  akrl

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