From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Querying available mode hooks in a given mode Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:52:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ha5xg77a.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1397440399 10049 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2014 01:53:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 01:53:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 14 03:53:12 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WZW56-0002Fq-MH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:53:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40243 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WZW56-0002rh-Bf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:53:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WZW4p-0002ql-5b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WZW4h-00039p-NI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:52:51 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45585) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WZW4h-00039e-GE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2014 21:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WZW4f-0001XQ-6u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:52:41 +0200 Original-Received: from 192-171-35-19.cpe.pppoe.ca ([192.171.35.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:52:41 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 192-171-35-19.cpe.pppoe.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2014 03:52:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192-171-35-19.cpe.pppoe.ca User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HkxIDiUCbC/wWA7e+IVsnPtmhzw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97124 Archived-At: >> My goal is to, after a mode has been entered, to check whether >> a particular hook exists. If it does or does not exist, then I will >> run some handler code. Can you give a concrete example? > Unless the mode author is straying pretty far from accepted practice, > you can usually see all the hooks by doing C-h v, then typing > modeprefix--hook, and hitting TAB. That should give you a *Completion* > buffer with all the matching variables. Actually, some hooks may exist without appearing there. Stefan