Re: Redefining functions and variables

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

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