Re: Mail mode and message mode hooks

[Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> So, the message-*-hook variables should probably be aliased to the
> mail-*-hook variables.

On further thought, there is a problem with this.  If we defvaralias
(e.g.) message-send-hook in message.el, any (add-hook message-send-hook foo)
statement in a user's .emacs file will be overwritten when message.el is
loaded.

One solution is to make message-mode run the mail-*-hooks explicitly,
but this may conflict with user customizations that set up both hooks

  (add-hook 'message-send-hook 'foo)
  (add-hook 'mail-send-hook 'foo)

which is not outside the realm of probability.  In this case, running
both hooks is clearly not what we want.