GNU bug report logs - #10384
23.2; Emacs Lisp Reference Manual - incorrect or unclear documentation about invocation condition of hooks pre-command-hook and post-command-hook

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: oitofelix <at> gmail.com (Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro)

Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:30:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 23.2

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 10384 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro <oitofelix <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#10384: 23.2; Emacs Lisp Reference Manual - incorrect or unclear documentation about invocation condition of hooks pre-command-hook and post-command-hook
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:24:34 -0500

>>> Normal hook run before each command is executed.
>> 
>> I could perhaps change this to say:
>> 
>> Normal hook run before any command is executed interactively.

> This probably isn't an improvement though, because it might suggest that
> call-interactively runs these hooks, when it doesn't.

Agreed.  If we want to be more careful we'd have to say something like
"Hook run before the command loop executes a command".


        Stefan
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