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>>> write-file-functions
>>> write-contents-functions
>> 
>> For those of you not lucky enough to use the CVS trunk of Emacs development,
>> those hooks were (incorrectly) called write-file-hooks and
>> write-content-hooks up until Emacs-21.3.
> You mean those non-hooks ;-)  Otherwise, why would it be incorrect to
> call them hooks...

No, they're hooks, but *a* hook shouldn't be called bla-bla-hooks,
obviously ;-)


        Stefan


PS: Next week, we'll look at why they can be called bla-bla-functions.