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sorry bout the bad etiquette. also, it turns out that it does seem to 
work. the reason that i didn't realize it was working was that i thought 
you could (add-hook 'some-mode ...) more than once, but really, this 
will just overwrite the previously added hook.

lowell

David Kastrup wrote:
> Please don't copy me with Email to Usenet articles: it is a very bad
> breach of netiquette to force the unwary to reply twice, once in
> private and then again in public.
> 
> Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
> 
> 
>> > (defmacro my-add-hook (hook &rest body)
>> >   `(add-hook ',(intern (concat (symbol-name hook) "-mode-hook"))
>> >         (lambda () ,@body)))
>> >
>>
>>I just tried it out and it doesn't seem to work. I tried both:
>>
>>(my-add-hook 'emacs-lisp (keyboard-translate ?\( ?\[))
>>              ^
> 
> 
> Which is wrong.
> 
> 
>>and
>>
>>(my-add-hook emacs-lisp (keyboard-translate ?\( ?\[))
> 
> 
> Which results here in:
> 
> emacs-lisp-mode-hook's value is 
> ((lambda nil
>    (keyboard-translate 40 91)))
> 
> 
> Hook run when entering Emacs Lisp mode.
> 
> You can customize this variable.
> 
> Defined in `emacs-lisp/lisp-mode'.
> 
> [back]
> 
> Looks fine to me.
>