From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Howto override a function only locally in elisp? Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 17:45:03 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <87r5ld5fuo.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <8623f75a-092e-4a96-92df-e21309e075cc@b21g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291831191 8339 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 17:59:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:59:51 +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 Dec 08 18:59:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQOIq-0002sk-5p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:59:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQOIp-0002wt-Is for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:59:43 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1273938303 2583 143.93.54.11 (15 May 2010 15:45:03 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 15:45:03 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lBFGPJZjNhDLf4KPQk4l7ocq294= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-088-068-217-175.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178208 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75747 Archived-At: LanX writes: > Hi > > what's the best approach to replace a function only for another > function? > > My use case is to replace calls to `message' with `tooltip-show' > within some function in certain programming modes. > > But I don't want to copy and change the whole function, it would be > sufficient to override locally any call to `message' with a `my- > message' function without globally messing up message. > > Any idea? Perhaps with `defadvice'? > > Cheers > Rolf (require 'cl) (flet ((message (fmt &rest args) (tooltip-show (apply 'format fmt args)))) (message "Hello World")) -ap