GNU bug report logs - #26623
24.5; bad variable name: `inside-post-command-hook'

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Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2017 17:02:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.5

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: rms <at> gnu.org
Cc: 26623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, drew.adams <at> oracle.com
Subject: bug#26623: 24.5; bad variable name: `inside-post-command-hook'
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 21:42:23 +0300

> From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
> CC: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 26623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:18:51 -0400
> 
> I think it is a good idea to avoid making more variables that are not
> hooks but have names which suggest they were hooks.  Let's aim to have
> -hook mean it's a hook.

I agree, and I wrote that much.  But having a single variable ending
in a "-hook" that is an exception from that rule is hardly a
catastrophe.
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