From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Redefining functions and variables
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:54:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hkegu6c.fsf@fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87mxtaa4u2.fsf@gnu.org
Johan Bockgård <bojohan+news@gnu.org> writes:
> Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:
>
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>
>>> Just as is the case for `defun', redefining macros with `defmacro'
>>> is problematic. I really recommend not to do that and use defadvice
>>> instead, which was designed specifically for this purpose.
>>
>> Last time I tried to advice `defun', it gave me a `invalid function'
>> error or some such.
>
> Emacs chokes on the irregular "[DOCSTRING]" argument:
>
> (defun NAME ARGLIST [DOCSTRING] BODY...)
>
> You have to provide an explicit ARGLIST:
>
> (defadvice FUNCTION (CLASS NAME [POSITION] [ARGLIST] FLAG...)
> [DOCSTRING] [INTERACTIVE-FORM]
> BODY...)
Ah, ok - thank you. I guess, I did not ivestigate it very much back
then.
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-29 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-27 15:12 Redefining functions and variables Elena
2010-07-27 20:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-27 22:16 ` Elena
2010-07-28 0:35 ` Andreas Politz
2010-07-28 7:51 ` Elena
2010-07-28 14:29 ` Elena
2010-07-28 18:48 ` Andreas Politz
2010-07-28 20:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-29 8:32 ` Elena
2010-07-29 9:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-29 10:16 ` Elena
2010-07-29 13:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-30 19:32 ` Uday S Reddy
2010-07-29 10:31 ` Andreas Politz
2010-07-29 11:46 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-07-29 15:54 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2010-07-29 12:41 ` Tim X
2010-07-29 10:03 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-07-29 10:28 ` Elena
2010-07-29 20:35 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-07-29 22:22 ` Tim X
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