bug#41682: makefile-gmake-mode does not trigger "eval-after-load"'s hooks

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 11:21 +0100, Basil L. Contovounesios wrote:
> tags 41682 + notabug
> quit
> 
> Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
> 
> > Functions added with (eval-after-load 'makefile-gmake-mode …) do
> > not
> > trigger when the mode is enabled
> 
> I think you've misunderstood what eval-after-load does.
> 
> 'makefile-gmake-mode' is a major mode function defined in the file
> make-mode.el which provides the named feature 'make-mode'.  See
> (info "(elisp) Named Features") and (info "(elisp) Hooks for
> Loading").
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Named-Features.html
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Hooks-for-Loading.html
> 
> eval-after-load, and its newer, preferred sibling with-eval-after-
> load,
> register some Lisp to be run when a file or named feature is or has
> already been loaded.
> 
> If you want to register some Lisp to run only once, after make-
> mode.el
> is loaded (and makefile-gmake-mode has been defined), then you should
> write:
> 
>   (with-eval-after-load 'make-mode
>     (foo)
>     (bar))
> 
> If you want to register some Lisp to run every time makefile-gmake-
> mode
> is enabled, then you should write:
> 
>   (add-hook 'makefile-gmake-mode-hook #'foo)
> 
> If you want to register some Lisp to run every time any make-mode.el
> major mode is enabled, then you should write:
> 
>   (add-hook 'makefile-mode-hook #'foo)
> 
> Is there some other case you're trying to address, or can this bug be
> closed?
> 

Thank you, I migrated my emacs config to use the `with-eval-after-load` 
you suggested, but stumbled upon a problem that it doesn't seem to work
with python-mode. I tried as an argument `'python`, `'python-mode`,
``python.el`, `"python"`, `"python.el"` — none of that works for me.
The code I'm trying to execute is simply:

(with-eval-after-load 'python
  '(modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w" python-mode-syntax-table))

Simply removing the "with-" makes it work. Is there anything special
about this macro I should know?