emacs lisp

I just tried it an it works for me.  

Maybe it is as if the hook is not there because your hook doesn't do anything when in that environment, even though it does something in the interactive environment.  You didn't mention what you expected it to do.

I used a hook that just inserts a string into the new buffer: (insert "new string") .  Does that work for you?

Also, the next step up from running find-file from the M-x buffer, but before running a program that calls find-file, is to put a buffer into lisp interaction mode and run find-file there:  To get into that mode, use the lisp-interaction-mode command.  Now put (find-file "doesntexist") into that buffer and with the cursor to the right of the closing parenthesis, hit ctl-J.  That evaluates the expression (runs the find-file function) in an environment much closer to what it will run in in your program that when you invoke it interactively.

What sort of results do you get when you do that?

to bryanh

Thanks for the help I tryed it but it did not work.
I tryed ctrl-J on:
(find-file "doesntexist.h")
The .h is so the template library does something

I have included some info below, If you need more just ask.

The code  on the hook is from a template library, I dont fully understand it, we need to call find-file from a lisp program as we have a popup window file dialoge that calls find-file.

The code is added to the hook with
(add-hook 'find-file-not-found-hooks 'template-not-found-function t))
The code on the hook is:
(defun template-not-found-function ()
  "Use a template when visiting a non-existent file.
See `template-auto-insert' and `template-find-file-commands'.  Function
in `find-file-not-found-hooks'."
  (and template-auto-insert (not buffer-read-only) (bobp) (eobp)
       (or (memq this-command template-find-file-commands)
        (and (memq this-command template-file-select-commands)
          ;; thanks to Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>:
          (memq (car-safe (car command-history))
                template-find-file-commands)))
       (let ((template (cdr (template-derivation buffer-file-name t))))
      (and (file-readable-p template)
           (or (eq template-auto-insert t)
            (y-or-n-p
             (format "Use template %s? "
                  (if (string-match "XEmacs\\|Lucid" emacs-version)
                      (abbreviate-file-name template t)
                    (abbreviate-file-name template)))))
           (progn (template-new-file buffer-file-name template t)
               t)))))


 

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