Re: problem getting hooks to be active

[pemente@northpark.edu (Eric Pement)]

Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote in message news:<UgRZa.122$7R.48@news.level3.com>...
> In article <87ptjc3x6r.fsf@lorien.concordia.ca>,
> Peter Solodov  <peter@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
> >On 11 Aug 2003, Eric Pement wrote:
> >>    (add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook'
> >
> >That second quote is really there???  In this case you're adding to
> >"sgml-mode-hook'", and not sgml-mode-hook.
> 
> No he isn't.  [ ... ]

> But I agree that his layout suggests a serious misunderstanding of how Lisp
> quoting works.
> 
> >(add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook
> >  (lambda ()
> >    ...

I wonder if I should expect this?  Three people respond to my
question, all of them nitpicking about a quote mark that doesn't
affect the failure or success of the code. Yes, the extra quote mark
in 'sgml-mode-hook' was an ignorant mistake. I copied it off a sample
ini file on www.dotemacs.de. Removing the trailing apostrophe does not
fix the problem.

So what should I have written instead that will change the variables
while in sgml-mode?