Re: Temporarily suppress a hook?

[Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>]

> I have before-save-hook defined in ~/.emacs
> > (add-hook 'before-save-hook 'delete-trailing-whitespace)


Both `add-hook' and `remove-hook' take an optional
> LOCAL argument, to affect only the current buffer
> (the buffer-local value of the hook).
>

It's not clear how that helps me. In essentially every other file I edit, I
want to delete trailing whitespace, so I enable it globally. It seems
buffer-local enabling of that hook would be appropriate if I only
occasionally wanted to enable it.

Skip

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