From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#25581: 25.1; Incorrect statement in (elisp) `Hooks' Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:50:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8e81acfe-ecaa-4fac-9484-24541b232ba1@default> <87k0xo83ww.fsf@gnus.org> <9a1b7301-09fd-4df0-be17-e20b4ebbe36e@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="1315"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 25581@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 26 03:51:12 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kAkam-0000Ea-Dg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2020 03:51:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48484 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAkal-0001SD-G2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:51:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41214) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAkac-0001S5-1I for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:51:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:53465) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAkab-0003VJ-Ng for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:51:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kAkab-0007mb-ME for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:51:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 25581 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 25581-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B25581.159840663329881 (code B ref 25581); Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 25581) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Aug 2020 01:50:33 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36778 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kAka9-0007lt-I1 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:50:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59278) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1kAka7-0007lf-7W for 25581@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:50:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50866) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kAka1-0003OX-QL; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:50:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kAka0-0008SS-Sz; Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:50:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9a1b7301-09fd-4df0-be17-e20b4ebbe36e@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 24 Aug 2020 09:18:27 -0700 (PDT)) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:186391 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Some vars are _intended_ to > have a value that can be a single function or a list of > functions. Some of the latter kind of variables are > hooks. (Maybe _all_ of the latter can be treated as > hooks; maybe not.) We could conceivably start a long, slow process of giving them new names, and converting them into enitrely regular normal hooks. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)