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From: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Subject: Re: defvar vs setqif..
Date: 19 May 2002 16:59:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1021841986.24318.2803.camel@space-ghost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ap3elg77tqj.fsf@poynting.umd.edu>

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 16:44, D. Goel wrote:

> An example: my .emacs needs to, say, (add-hook 'foo-mode-hook... ),
> but the hook may not be defined, so i (defvar foo-mode-hook) before
> this statement. 

Why do you defvar it?  The best solution is to (require 'foo-mode)
before adding the hook.  But `add-hook' won't lose if the hook isn't
bound yet.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-19 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-19 20:44 defvar vs setqif D. Goel
2002-05-19 20:59 ` Colin Walters [this message]
2002-05-20  0:05   ` Miles Bader
2002-05-20 19:08   ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 19:41     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-20 19:47       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-21 13:13         ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 20:05     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-20 21:33   ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-20  0:03 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-20 19:00   ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 19:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-20 19:40       ` D. Goel
2002-05-20 23:15     ` Miles Bader
2002-05-21 13:18       ` D. Goel

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