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From: wolfgang@mgm.mit.edu (Wolfgang Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: GNU Emacs:  site specific vs. personal hooks
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Date: 14 May 88 01:25:45 GMT
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>We would like to have a *site wide* mode hook for each of the common
>GNU Emacs modes, as well as allowing the user to write his own
>personal mode hooks.  [...]  It's beginning to look to me that each
>GNU Emacs mode needs to have at least *two* hooks for each mode: one
>to run site-wide customizations, followed by one to run user's
>personal customizations.

The -mode-hook variables can *either* conatain a SINGLE function to
call, or a LIST of functions to call (in sequence).  One can always
append yet another function to the mode-hook.

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