after-save-hook

Jeff Mincy writes: I'm somewhat confused by why the following piece of code does not work the way that I expect. I have find-unbalanced-parentheses, which errors when there is unbalanced parens. I tried adding a save hook, that is local to only emacs-lisp mode files that calls find-unbalanced-parentheses. However, after this code runs, the after-save-hook is run in all buffers, and not just emacs-lisp-mode buffers. (defun check-for-unbalanced-parens-on-save () (interactive) (make-local-hook 'after-save-hook) (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'find-unbalanced-parentheses)) (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'check-for-unbalanced-parens-on-save) Nevermind. add-hook expects a local argument. (defun check-for-unbalanced-parens-on-save () (interactive) (make-local-hook 'after-save-hook) (add-hook 'after-save-hook 'find-unbalanced-parentheses nil >>t<<)) Geez, I can stare at the problem for an hour, and I figure it out five minutes after I send a mail message. -jeff