Re: other-buffer advice on kill-buffer

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     That's not correct.  You can advise a primitive function, but the
>     advice will only affect calls to that function made from Lisp, not
>     calls from other primitives.
>
> It may be that in a few special cases
> we should modify calls within C code to some primitive functions
> so that they call the Lisp symbol.
> That way, it would work to advise those functions.
>
> To do this for all the primitive functions would be impossible, I
> think, and certainly not worth the pain.  But there might be a few
> functions for which this would be particularly useful, and it might be
> worth doing this for them.

If it is worth making it advisable, it is worth giving it a hook.

The problem is that advice is intended for adding functionality that has
not been imagined previously.  So it is hard to think of a case where
one would explicitly make a function advisable.

-- 
David Kastrup