bug#81643: 32.0.50; use-package :hook is not the same as :init add-hook

Den tis 18 aug. 2026 kl 13:41 skrev Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]>:
>
> > From: John Wiegley <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Lucas Jimenez <[email protected]>,  [email protected]
> > Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:43:00 -0700
> >
> > The original reporter is correct: If the manual implies that `:hook' is the
> > same as using `add-hook' in a `:init' block, then it should be correctly to
> > say that this depends on whether (1) the nature of the use-package macro
> > causes auto-deferral to happen, and (2) there is code in a `:config' block
> > that would thusly be deferred.
> >
> > Maybe it’s best to just drop this statement from the manual.
>
> There's no such statement in the manual.  It is a conjecture, probably
> from the following excerpt:

I think the problem is with the first two examples in section 4.3. Specifically:

    :init (add-hook 'c-ts-mode-hook #'my/c-ts-mode-hook)

cannot be simplified to:

    :hook (c-ts-mode . my/c-ts-mode-hook)

It must be:

    :hook ('c-ts-mode . #'my/c-ts-mode-hook)

So I need to quote both the prefix of c-ts-mode-hook and the name of
the hook function.

I think the documentation is very confusing. For example:

    (use-package company
    :commands company-mode
    :init
    (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook #'company-mode))

Why is the hook function named company-mode?


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mvh/best regards Björn Lindqvist