From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:47:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5a44a850-e4fc-4c9f-a266-c74766810ba1@default> <1807679d-1125-4afe-81b7-b8d8e78aa2c6@default> <9f1cf1a7-6f05-449a-a4a2-c013cf326e9c@default> <6c7a705c-c810-49ec-a70c-376ba150205e@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476820145 14839 195.159.176.226 (18 Oct 2016 19:49:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 19:49:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 21:49:01 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bwaNO-0001St-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:48:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwaNQ-0004Iz-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:48:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52667) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwaMQ-0004Hn-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:47:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwaMP-00089u-Vq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:47:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwaMJ-00084N-Qf; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:47:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bwaMJ-00082e-2N; Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:47:35 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:25:05 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208444 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. ]]] > That's because you misunderstand its doc. The confusion comes from the > multiple uses of the name "hook". There are basically two uses of > the word "hook" in the context of Emacs: The job of documentation is to be understood. If a user who is generally sensible misunderstands a certain point, that's not per fault, it's the documentation's fault. Can we discourage the more general meaning of "hook"? > the word "hook" in the context of Emacs: > - a very generic sense, which refers to some kind of way to influence > the behavior of something. Is there anything in our manuals that encourages this conflicting sense of the word? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.