From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Artur Malabarba Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20600: 24.5.3: add-hook - wrong arguments error Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 16:38:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <555979F2.1010705@easy-emacs.de> <83382ueze3.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: bruce.connor.am@gmail.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431963566 23550 80.91.229.3 (18 May 2015 15:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 15:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20600@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 18 17:39:13 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YuN8K-00043m-CP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 17:39:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuN8J-0002MO-Nz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 11:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuN8E-0002JO-Nv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 11:39:07 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuN8A-0002zi-No for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 11:39:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:39336) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YuN8A-0002ze-Kv for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 11:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YuN8A-0001fY-4Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 11:39:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Artur Malabarba Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 15:39:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20600 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20600-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20600.14319635316396 (code B ref 20600); Mon, 18 May 2015 15:39:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20600) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 May 2015 15:38:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49311 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YuN7z-0001f5-0y for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 11:38:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-f43.google.com ([209.85.215.43]:35779) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YuN7w-0001en-KL for 20600@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 May 2015 11:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: by labbd9 with SMTP id bd9so226403304lab.2 for <20600@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 18 May 2015 08:38:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=o0WoYDq+GwUz71PJui0BVTJqDGBWoyX3hLkSCm8qCJc=; b=H4gC3u7CKv0Wn1lhVi42U6PYc2g/njVlyTTZvjr1VheDyfFwUrrib9yMc9nsZt7Ri/ vC6K/J0Tr5mjYIzm/FOSUm9PLH7nM7vSNmhNf1tpM0F8OcxPHtXnJ2tqpy529Z20N5Iw HeK5zOylOmdMF2cwSXCLWpz5tsLwp+sZt8ulz+3oP0lIXl7EOWJNjzjajx9jJ9ywUH6R YACLfFepYINrMl7bORcY/LpzbqC6j4cMsXuMOaMzurVO5nzfGvdQ1HslnFUtJqwHoaJQ MhU2b4vZG9HqcVbbfbcQyd1/VZGbF6pAwSld84sudyzuwtgLQBDCsr96mWjQufTfsXgI teeQ== X-Received: by 10.152.7.239 with SMTP id m15mr17178734laa.95.1431963522467; Mon, 18 May 2015 08:38:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.25.150.1 with HTTP; Mon, 18 May 2015 08:38:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83382ueze3.fsf@gnu.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: m58bXkdGVx6H_mt9O4HYI3K0Jt4 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:102924 Archived-At: > To tell you the truth, I don't see the problem. Is the problem the > need to specify a couple of arguments that will be left unused when > the function is called? If so, we do it all over the place; we even > have a special convention for that. I don't see a problem either, I'm just suggesting an improvement on run-hooks. The improvement would reduce the number of times you have to define a wrapper around a function just to use it in a hook, by just not passing to the function more arguments than it accepts. Although, to be honest, I don't know how often that would be useful. Even in the case originally mentioned above it would actually *not* useful, because `save-buffer` *does* take an optional argument so the wrapper around it would still be necessary.