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changeset 12234:2de6f5e4858d
Explain how make-local-hook works.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 15 Jun 1995 13:28:17 +0000 |
| parents | 9a87c5ce0802 |
| children | 6d2e893b7ff7 |
| files | lispref/modes.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/modes.texi Thu Jun 15 07:04:00 1995 +0000 +++ b/lispref/modes.texi Thu Jun 15 13:28:17 1995 +0000 @@ -1383,6 +1383,13 @@ buffer. When a hook variable is local, it can have local and global hook functions, and @code{run-hooks} runs all of them. +This function works by making @code{t} an element of the buffer-local +value. That serves as a flag to use the hook functions in the default +value of the hook variable as well as those in the local value. Since +@code{run-hooks} understands this flag, @code{make-local-hook} works +with all normal hooks. It works for only some non-normal hooks---those +whose callers have been updated to understand this meaning of @code{t}. + Do not use @code{make-local-variable} directly for hook variables; it is not sufficient. @end defun