From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 1) (elisp) `Advising Named Functions', 2) search filtering example Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:18:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5a44a850-e4fc-4c9f-a266-c74766810ba1@default> <1807679d-1125-4afe-81b7-b8d8e78aa2c6@default> <9f1cf1a7-6f05-449a-a4a2-c013cf326e9c@default> <6c7a705c-c810-49ec-a70c-376ba150205e@default> <8337jsx3tl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1476908422 21387 195.159.176.226 (19 Oct 2016 20:20:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:20:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 19 22:20:18 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxLJ-0003cI-Db for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:20:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51052 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxLL-0003QW-Lq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48734) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxL2-0003Hg-5a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:19:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxKx-0006Nb-5j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:19:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=57692 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxKw-0006NF-VS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:19:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bwxKf-00071m-An for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2016 22:19:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:d46jAkON20MFGkaeSBOlGrRijjQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:208499 Archived-At: >> Most probably, because "hook" is a general-purpose word freely used in >> general discourse. I don't see how can we avoid that without having >> complicated confusing text in the manual. > Let's try it and see what changes would be required. FWIW, I'm not eve sure the confusion comes from the manual. The informal use of `hook` to which I was referring is one I use and see in email mostly. It's very widespread, AFAICT, but that doesn't mean the manual isn't more careful. Stefan