From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11342: 24.1.50; HOOK variable name in `add-hook' etc. confusing Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 10:46:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87y5pjjurd.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1337093299 13748 80.91.229.3 (15 May 2012 14:48:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:48:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 11342-done@debbugs.gnu.org To: michael_heerdegen@web.de Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 15 16:48:18 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SUJ2t-0003NM-9i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 16:48:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUJ2s-000094-LC for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 10:48:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37286) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUJ2m-00007X-Lo for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 10:48:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUJ2e-0002g1-H0 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 10:48:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:46614) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SUJ2e-0002fg-Dd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 10:48:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUJ2h-0004uU-3X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 10:48:03 -0400 Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 14:48:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 11342 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Mail-Followup-To: 11342@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca Original-Received: via spool by 11342-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D11342.133709322418799 (code D ref 11342); Tue, 15 May 2012 14:48:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11342-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 May 2012 14:47:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56158 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUJ1k-0004t9-8i for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 10:47:04 -0400 Original-Received: from relais.videotron.ca ([24.201.245.36]:64978) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SUJ1i-0004si-8b for 11342-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 10:47:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net ([24.201.208.110]) by VL-VM-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Oracle Communications Messaging Exchange Server 7u4-22.01 64bit (built Apr 21 2011)) with ESMTP id <0M4200IZBJQ8WK80@VL-VM-MR001.ip.videotron.ca> for 11342-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 May 2012 10:46:56 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 00A91AE233; Tue, 15 May 2012 10:46:54 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: <87y5pjjurd.fsf@web.de> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:60023 Archived-At: > remove-hook: (HOOK FUNCTION &optional LOCAL) > You could misinterpret that and think that the first argument must be > a value representing a hook. But actually it must be a _symbol_ > holding a hook. Actually, the docstring says "HOOK should be a symbol", so the problem is only that you base your decision on the eldoc info, which is necessarily too limited to be trusted to give that kind of detail. I find that changing the argument name makes the code and docstring too verbose for my taste, so I don't think it's worth the trouble. Stefan