From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replacing a function with another one Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:42:31 +0100 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87eh27mhyw.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> References: <87vbvofsi6.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87bnxgs4r9.fsf@web.de> <87lhwj1cfz.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87zjkz6vd5.fsf@web.de> <8738ir161u.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87eh2b6nfm.fsf@web.de> <87r46anab5.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87vbvleiey.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87vbvlbm8p.fsf@web.de> <87siqpsdgs.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87iorljkhx.fsf@web.de> <87pplsivy7.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394646187 15156 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2014 17:43:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:43:07 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 12 18:43:16 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WNnBU-0002KH-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:43:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNnBU-0005tB-4j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:43:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41499) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNnB5-0005oK-VM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:42:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNnAz-0004eu-Kk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:42:51 -0400 Original-Received: from client-194-42-186-216.muenet.net ([194.42.186.216]:52973 helo=yun.yagibdah.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNnAz-0004dw-4K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:42:45 -0400 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1WNnAs-00060R-QK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:42:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:45:38 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 194.42.186.216 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96464 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> Considering all that, wouldn=C2=B4t it be much better to create my own m= ode? > > Another good approach is to take hi-lock.el, modify it (as little as > possible) to provide the feature you want, and then to submit the patch > for inclusion in a future Emacs. I=C2=B4d love to do that, and I think it could be done. I=C2=B4d mostly ha= ve to add some things to it and probably wouldn=C2=B4t need to modify what=C2=B4s already there. How would I do that? hi-lock.el is part of emacs, which is in a bzr repo from which I update every now and then. I could take the current version of hi-lock.el and put it into a git repo to work on it. In the meantime, the original version may change. Then what? --=20 Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power.