Re: run-hooks vs. run-mode-hooks.

[Lute Kamstra]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Maybe Gnus can do something like:
>
>     (or (fboundp 'run-mode-hooks)
>       (defalias 'run-mode-hooks 'run-hooks))
>
> Definitely not!  Gnus should not mess with the way Emacs defines
> (or doesn't define) these functions!

It seems that that I was badly educated by code I read: I've quite
often seen the use of constructs like the one above.

> Gnus should define a function called gnus-run-mode-hooks, which calls
> run-mode-hooks if that is defined, otherwise run-hooks.  Then all the
> modes in Gnus could use gnus-run-mode-hooks.

That's what Katsumi did for gnus-score-mode.  Other major mode in Gnus
still use gnus-run-hooks which uses run-hooks.  Katsumi, could you fix
those modes in a similar way?

Lute.