From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "David Schneider" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: add-hook problem, file mode specification error? Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:00:17 -0400 Message-ID: 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 1154052038 25343 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2006 02:00:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:00:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 04:00:36 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 1G6HeV-0000TB-9R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:00:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6HeU-00049X-TM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:00:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6HeH-00049K-Ty for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6HeF-000498-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:00:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6HeF-000495-CK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.166.183] (helo=py-out-1112.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G6Hg8-0005yD-98 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x31so393238pye for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:00:17 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=jO2ymTky2eQa9mstK5V4V5NX62PxqOdlOWruovSxog1aF1cq1sK83cdBXgNm+cO/bynoYKXIyWZSLTxJ0QWuJj2seu3+B4w+24a1dbnlCcXEepvXKKFOZ6QSPZyMV9q4mOy/7KPJ3OTOOvgV9qdN8hXTSO3shC+DrIftwW46PGs= Original-Received: by 10.35.91.10 with SMTP id t10mr13877238pyl; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.35.12.18 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline 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:36314 Archived-At: 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?