From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Juanma Barranquero'" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: questions about blink-cursor-mode
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:39:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5F1590E419004FC3988A3EB1CDFF52EB@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0911181531r6f0a3916l4e7eaa1578bccfe7@mail.gmail.com>
> > blink-cursor-mode is defined using `define-minor-mode', and
> > the doc for that says that "It finishes by running the mode
> > hook variable `MODE-hook'." But there doesn't seem to be any
> > variable `blink-cursor-mode-hook'. How can that be?
>
> The code for `define-minor-mode' does this:
> (let* (...
> (hook (intern (concat mode-name "-hook")))
> (hook-on (intern (concat mode-name "-on-hook")))
> (hook-off (intern (concat mode-name "-off-hook")))
> ...)
> ...
> ,@body
> ;; The on/off hooks are here for backward compatibility only.
> (run-hooks ',hook (if ,mode ',hook-on ',hook-off))
>
> so the hook is run even if the symbol is not defvared. Some packages
> declare the hook variable, some don't. (Yes, I agree it would be
> better to always declare them, if only to add the standard "This is a
> normal hook blah blah" docstring.)
Thanks, Juanma. Now that I see that explanation, I recall that I knew this at
one time - but I guess I forgot it. Note that not only is it not declared (e.g.
defvar), it is also not bound, which is why `C-h v' doesn't recognize it.
I still have the other questions I posed. In sum, what's the right (or a good)
way to do what I need?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-11-18 18:59 ` questions about blink-cursor-mode Drew Adams
2009-11-18 23:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2009-11-18 23:39 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-11-19 1:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-19 1:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-19 17:17 ` Drew Adams
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