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bug#21311: 25.0.50; non-defvared hooks are not declared special with lex
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
bug#21311: 25.0.50; non-defvared hooks are not declared special with lexical-binding |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:40:32 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> It seems that hooks that are not declared using defvar but come into
>> being just because of a (add-hook 'my-hook ...) are not declared as
>> special meaning you cannot let-bind them to change their value in the
>> dynamic scope of the let.
>
> Yes.
>
>> The bug disappears as soon as I
>> - don't use lexical-binding, or
>> - defvar the hook (Fix #1 or #2)
>
> I think either of fix #1 or #2 are proper fixes and I think there's not
> much more we can do about it.
Allright.
> Arguably, nowadays packages should defvar all their hooks.
Ok, then I'll issue a bug report for magit. That's the package whose
non-defvared hook I wanted to let-bind.
Bye,
Tassilo