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

On 8/18/26 22:50, John Wiegley wrote:
 >>>>>> Björn Lindqvist <[email protected]> writes:
 >> 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)
 >
 > Why is this, exactly? And `('c-ts-mode . #'my/c-ts-mode-hook)' seems very
 > wrong.

No idea. I tried many ways of hooking the symbol and the above was
the only incatation that worked. Whether c-ts-mode or use-package is
at fault I don't know. The problem is so similar so it must be the same 
bug as in Lucas Jimenez' report.

 >> 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?
 >
 > Because that the name of the function used to turn on company-mode.

How can you know that if you are not familiar with company-mode? Once
you "get" it--that all examples are about turning on input completion
when another mode loads ("setting up autoloads"), it makes
sense. Examples would be clearer if the function was called
#'my-random-hook-fun or something.


-- 
mvh Björn Lindqvist