From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2016 15:47:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1bwaMJ-00082e-2N@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk2d6ssal.fsf-monnier+Inbox@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:25:05 -0400)
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> That's because you misunderstand its doc. The confusion comes from the
> multiple uses of the name "hook". There are basically two uses of
> the word "hook" in the context of Emacs:
The job of documentation is to be understood. If a user who is
generally sensible misunderstands a certain point, that's not per
fault, it's the documentation's fault.
Can we discourage the more general meaning of "hook"?
> the word "hook" in the context of Emacs:
> - a very generic sense, which refers to some kind of way to influence
> the behavior of something.
Is there anything in our manuals that encourages this conflicting sense
of the word?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-18 19:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-17 5:25 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example Drew Adams
2016-10-17 12:20 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-10-17 14:02 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-17 14:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-10-17 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-17 15:40 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-17 15:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-17 17:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-17 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-17 15:40 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-17 16:16 ` Noam Postavsky
2016-10-17 17:05 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-17 17:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-17 18:41 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-17 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-18 19:47 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-10-19 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-19 20:00 ` Richard Stallman
2016-10-19 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-10-20 7:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-20 18:06 ` Richard Stallman
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