From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: add-hook problem, file mode specification error? Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:28:41 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154100641 1141 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2006 15:30:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:30:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 17:30:39 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6UHr-0004Li-4O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6UHq-0005pW-K6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:30:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6UHe-0005nW-DP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6UHb-0005nK-4r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:29:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6UHb-0005nH-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:29:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G6UJb-0007AE-Qa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 11:31:52 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G6UHC-0004Bk-Bj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:29:22 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:29:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36336 Archived-At: David Schneider wrote: > Some time ago I asked how to modify the compile command in emacs, and > several people were kind enough to help me out with the code: > > (add-hook 'perl-mode-hook > (lambda () > (set (make-local-variable 'compile-command) > (concat "perl -w " (buffer-file-name))))) > > which I greatly appreciated. Recently the command has stopped > working, and I haven't been able to figure out why - perhaps I > accidentally modified my .emacs file or some other configuration > issue. The message file mode specification error comes up when > loading my .emacs file - I have not tried to isolate that yet. I can > create a compile command for c, but not perl, is there a way to view > the 'hooks' that are in place for a mode, will add-hook return > anything to indicate failure? `C-h v perl-mode-hook' will tell you whether add-hook did what you expect. But I would start by running emacs with the --debug-init command line option. -- Kevin