Re: Please try Pmail

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> Since they return a buffer already, we may as well store the FUN2
>> inside that buffer (as a buffer-local var).
> They don't return a buffer.  They switch to a different buffer, and
> return nil.

Yes, that's what I meant by "return a new buffer".  They aren't forced
to return nil, BTW (although in practice, it seems they always do).

> Here's one reason against adding a new hook to post-process annotations:
> to do this particular job right, we need to run all the hook functions
> in all the buffers that have been swapped to (so as to pick up their
> local values).  This violates the usual behavior of run-hooks, which
> only runs the buffer-local value of the hook, followed by the global
> value of the hook.

I don't propose a hook, but a buffer-local *-function (as opposed to
*-functions or *-hook).  I.e. a single function, just like your
proposal, except it's stored in the final "returned" buffer, rather than
returned explicitly.


        Stefan