"Chong Yidong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I like the idea, but returning a value from a hook is rather >>> inconvenient -- if there are multiple functions on the hook, which >>> value should you use eventually? >> >>> Perhaps before-kill-functions should get START, END and STRING >>> as arguments where STRING is the result of buffer-substring. >> >>> Each hook could then modify that string as they please. > > Sorry, I'm probably missing something, but I don't understand how this > would work. Since each function would only be modifying their own local > STRING variable, not the one that will actually be killed...
It doesn't have to modify the variable `string', but its string value, e.g. (defun x (s) (aset s 1 ?-)) (let ((s "abc")) (x s) s) => "a-c" -- Kim F. Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cua.dk _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
