From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How to automatically write *Messages" buffer to a file? Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:19:16 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101334810 32221 80.91.229.6 (24 Nov 2004 22:20:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 24 23:20:00 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CX5UW-0006ua-00 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:20:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CX5dg-0006sM-AJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:29:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CX5dR-0006pX-8b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:29:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CX5dQ-0006pE-QK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:29:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CX5dQ-0006p6-Nk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:29:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.231] (helo=agminet04.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CX5U4-0002mM-Ei for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:19:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.10]) by agminet04.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id iAOMJQ7S002761; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:19:27 -0800 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id iAOMJQos018349; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:19:26 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id iAOMJIwp018077; Wed, 24 Nov 2004 15:19:26 -0700 Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" , X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22289 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22289 Something that I don't like about advised functions is that I cannot use the debugger with them (unless I'm missing something). - Drew Stefan's "advice" advice: `advice' is a sledghammer: it's the last resort before modifying the source code. Advising is a source of major headaches because of unexpected interactions with other pieces of code... Advice have to be written *extremely* carefully. I.e. if you can do it without `advice', then don't use `advice'.