From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:00:53 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5a44a850-e4fc-4c9f-a266-c74766810ba1@default> <1807679d-1125-4afe-81b7-b8d8e78aa2c6@default> <9f1cf1a7-6f05-449a-a4a2-c013cf326e9c@default> <6c7a705c-c810-49ec-a70c-376ba150205e@default> <8337jsx3tl.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476907287 10047 195.159.176.226 (19 Oct 2016 20:01:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:01:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 19 22:01:20 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bwx2y-0000T3-DL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:01:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50984 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwx30-0005UB-LF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:01:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42369) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwx2p-0005TQ-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwx2p-0002uG-4M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:00:59 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwx2k-0002pJ-LT; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:00:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bwx2j-0003Eh-Ts; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:00:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <8337jsx3tl.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 19 Oct 2016 09:15:02 +0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208495 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > I think Stefan didn't mention one more meaning of "hook" that is > specific to Emacs: it is sometimes used in reference to the function > that gets placed on the list that is the value of a hook variable. > (Actually, to my mind, this is the only situation where something > should be called "a hook".) Don't we use the term "hook function" for these? > Most probably, because "hook" is a general-purpose word freely used in > general discourse. I don't see how can we avoid that without having > complicated confusing text in the manual. Let's try it and see what changes would be required. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.