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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
Cc: 12895@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12895: 24.3.50; Replacement for flet
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:34:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzk2htycj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqxm5vzh.fsf@gmail.com> (Antoine Levitt's message of "Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:42:26 +0100")

>> Overriding a function is bad.  It can mess things up and throw you
>> majorly off-course when debugging the problem.
> So are advices.

But advices are much more visible (e.g. they appear in C-h f).

> I have lots of flet in my .emacs, usually to suppress
> messages from functions which are defined elsewhere. For instance,

So you need just one advice that adds an `inhibit-message' variable and
then you can let-bind this variable wherever you used flet message.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-16 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-15 13:35 bug#12895: 24.3.50; Replacement for flet Antoine Levitt
2012-11-15 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-15 15:01   ` Antoine Levitt
2012-11-15 18:35     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-15 22:42       ` Antoine Levitt
2012-11-15 23:05         ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-15 23:24           ` Antoine Levitt
2012-11-15 23:44             ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-15 23:47               ` Antoine Levitt
2012-11-15 23:51                 ` Glenn Morris
2012-11-16 14:34         ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-11-16 14:49           ` Antoine Levitt
2012-11-16 15:24             ` Stefan Monnier
2016-01-31 17:42             ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-02-09 20:36               ` Antoine Levitt
2012-11-16  7:04   ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-11-16 14:33     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-16  1:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-01-31 14:19 ` bug#12895: Status: " Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-31 16:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-31 17:10     ` Marcin Borkowski

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