From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why call font-lock-add-keywords in a mode hook?
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 09:51:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuxkbu6f.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv37tlugeb.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
On 2016-01-26, at 05:14, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> My question: why would I want to call this function in a hook if I can
>> specify the mode in its invocation?
>
> Because the other use is fundamentally unclean, requiring
> a re-implementation of major-mode's inheritance, whereas you get it for
> free if you use nil for `mode' and call it from the mode's hook instead.
Ah, so that means that if I use a non-nil value for the `mode' argument,
say x-mode, and launch a buffer in y-mode, which derives from x-mode,
then I won't have my keywords there?
> Stefan
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-25 10:03 Why call font-lock-add-keywords in a mode hook? Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-25 14:49 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-26 4:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-26 8:51 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2016-01-26 13:04 ` Stefan Monnier
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