From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/18134 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B.V. Raghav" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Trigger spell checking before sending Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:42:53 +0530 Organization: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur Message-ID: <87k2lzua6i.fsf@ram.bvr.dp.lan> References: <874mde27a9.fsf@posteo.net> <874mdeddos.fsf@debian.uxu> <87vb5uvxbd.fsf@pietrop-debian64RfL.eng.citrite.net> <87mvr5ql03.fsf@debian.uxu> <877fi2dmms.fsf@pietrop-debian64RfL.eng.citrite.net> <87ziuxzh8e.fsf@debian.uxu> <878u2g3ixx.fsf@ram.bvr.dp.lan> <87ziuwe9si.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455952386 4193 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 07:13:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 07:13:06 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 08:13:06 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aX1iz-0005GO-NZ for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:13:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58780 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX1iz-0005rf-2x for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:13:05 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44585) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX1iw-0005rM-S3 for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:13:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX1it-0002cC-Mg for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:13:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail2.iitk.ac.in ([202.3.77.186]:39082) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX1it-0002Yh-8C for info-gnus-english@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:12:59 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in (smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in [172.31.1.22]) by mail2.iitk.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8069010001AC for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:42:53 +0530 (IST) Original-Received: from ram.bvr.dp.lan.iitk.ac.in (unknown [172.20.240.101]) (Authenticated sender: bvraghav) by smtp.cc.iitk.ac.in (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8086048 for ; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 12:42:53 +0530 (IST) In-Reply-To: <87ziuwe9si.fsf@debian.uxu> (Emanuel Berg's message of "Fri, 19 Feb 2016 21:15:41 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 202.3.77.186 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:18134 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > "B.V. Raghav" writes: > >>> OK, I see the problem, it doesn't get called >>> interactively. Try this instead: (defun >>> spell-before-send () (let*((lang-input >>> (read-from-minibuffer "Language [e or s]: ")) >> >> Would it have been possible to hook the >> _interactively_defined_ `spell-before-send' as [snip] >> If so, please enlighten the difference. > > I would prefer not to use `add-hook' nor the `lambda' > notation but in essence a non-interactive function [snip] > From a principal/esthetic point of view interactive > stuff doesn't really belong in hooks because those are > all about automatization. But in reality if that is > what you want and it works - why not? Thanks, r -- (B.V. Raghav)