On 2016-07-19 19:20, Mark Oteiza wrote:
> Ok, then perhaps something to the effect of
> 
> (defun run-single-function-hook (hook)
>   (let ((global-hook (default-value hook))
>         (local-hook (when (local-variable-p hook) (symbol-value hook))))
>     (or (and (functionp local-hook) (funcall local-hook))
>         (and (functionp global-hook) (funcall global-hook)))))
> 
> can instead be used.  Haven't bothered looking to see if this is useful
> outside of eldoc…

Looks nice; does it call global-hook on purpose if local-hook is a function that returns false?

Btw, (I hope this isn't a silly suggestion) is there any way to extend add-hook and run-hook* to work with both traditional "list of functions" hooks and single-function hooks?