Re: hooks and let-bound variables

[Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>]

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On 2015-06-24 15:22, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> It does not seem to work. Here is what I’m trying:
>> M-: (defvar curdir)
>
> Try putting that in the file that has the lexical-binding
> declaration. Or evaluating that before that file gets compiled or
> loaded.
>
>> then use autojump, but it tells me the value of curdir is still
>> void. I guess I need to change the code of eshell for this to work …
>
> Maybe someone else will have a better suggestion.  But I think that's
> the problem anyway: `curdir' is being handled as a lexical variable
> when the code that invokes the hook function is run.

Thank you for the suggestions. The eshell-autojump author fixed it and
it’s now working correctly. (I find very funny that I only use languages
with lexical binding, but can still be bitten by it in emacs-lisp.)

Alan

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