Variable: write-file-hooks

write-file-hooks is an alias for write-file-functions, defined in files.el.gz.

This variable is obsolete since 22.1; use write-file-functions instead.

Value

nil

Documentation

List of functions to be called before saving a buffer to a file.

Used only by save-buffer. If one of them returns non-nil, the file is considered already written and the rest are not called. These hooks are considered to pertain to the visited file. So any buffer-local binding of this variable is discarded if you change the visited file name with M-x set-visited-file-name (set-visited-file-name), but not when you change the major mode.

This hook is not run if any of the functions in write-contents-functions returns non-nil. Both hooks pertain to how to save a buffer to file, for instance, choosing a suitable coding system and setting mode bits. (See Info
node (elisp)Saving Buffers.) To perform various checks or
updates before the buffer is saved, use before-save-hook.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 18.

Aliases

write-file-hooks (obsolete since 22.1)