GNU bug report logs - #11342
24.1.50; HOOK variable name in `add-hook' etc. confusing

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:45:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.1.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: 11342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11342: 24.1.50; HOOK variable name in `add-hook' etc. confusing
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:31:48 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> > The manual sometimes calls these values being symbols "hook", and
> > sometimes "hook variable".
>
> * (elisp) Hooks::
>
>     A "hook" is a variable where you can store a function or functions to
>     be called on a particular occasion by an existing program.

File: elisp,  Node: Setting Hooks

 -- Function: add-hook hook function &optional append local
     This function is the handy way to add function FUNCTION to hook
     variable HOOK.

 -- Function: remove-hook hook function &optional local
     This function removes FUNCTION from the hook variable HOOK.


Michael
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