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From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Defining  functions on the fly
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:01:25 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874mm98cca.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zj41qml7.fsf@gnu.org>


Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> But as Pascal already said, duplicating your function is not a 
> good idea.  Defining aliases is a bit better if you persist on 
> prefixed versions although I the only benefit I can see is a 
> slightly better discoverability through C-h f <prefix>-TAB.

Related: i created the snippet i pasted from `ewmctrl' so that 
when users do C-h m, they can read a helpfully-named function for 
a dynamically-generated keybinding, rather than "??".

i imagine there's probably a Better Way To Do It™, though. :-)


Alexis.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-15 11:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-15  9:24 Defining functions on the fly Andreas Röhler
2015-06-15  9:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-06-15  9:47 ` Alexis
2015-06-15 10:20   ` Andreas Röhler
2015-06-15 10:37     ` Alexis
2015-06-15 10:41     ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-15 10:42     ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-15 11:01       ` Alexis [this message]
2015-06-15 11:19       ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-15 11:24         ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-15 11:31           ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-15 10:00 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-15 10:33   ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found] ` <mailman.5022.1434361680.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-15 12:52   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-16  5:59     ` Andreas Röhler
2015-06-16  7:01       ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-16  9:22         ` Andreas Röhler
2015-06-16 11:12           ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-16 11:40             ` Andreas Röhler
2015-06-16 13:10               ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-16 15:46                 ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.5109.1434469628.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-16 22:34                   ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]             ` <mailman.5090.1434454815.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-16 16:13               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-06-16 18:30                 ` Andreas Röhler
2015-06-16  9:42         ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5084.1434446560.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-16  9:50           ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-06-16 10:26             ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]             ` <mailman.5087.1434450412.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-16 11:35               ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5085.1434447782.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-16 22:32           ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5075.1434434385.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-16 22:23       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-17  6:13         ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]         ` <mailman.5137.1434522533.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-17 14:30           ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-17 16:40             ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found] <mailman.5020.1434360277.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-15  9:57 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-06-15 11:21   ` Andreas Röhler
2015-06-15 11:52     ` Tassilo Horn
2015-06-15 12:06       ` Andreas Röhler
2015-06-15 12:43       ` Andreas Röhler
2015-06-15 23:51 ` Gene
2015-06-16  1:14   ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-17  0:24     ` Gene
2015-06-17  1:12       ` Stefan Monnier
2015-06-16  5:47   ` Andreas Röhler

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