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: Redefining functions and variables Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:54:35 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <877hkegu6c.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: <68e690c9-aece-461d-afe9-ca9115ceaee5@m1g2000vbh.googlegroups.com> <76fd4dc4-a964-4629-90e2-329e1b83fd8d@h25g2000vba.googlegroups.com> <876300fnpk.fsf@fh-trier.de> <55e481e3-b894-499f-80b3-1c96b2c338ce@d37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <61db17c1-8c30-44a1-b96e-9eec802156fe@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> <87tynjl9x3.fsf@fh-trier.de> <87hbjjibrk.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> <08217e84-b4a0-4dd0-afbf-abd4d762c759@w30g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <87wrseo9ze.fsf@fh-trier.de> <87mxtaa4u2.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291852854 16941 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 00:00:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 00:00:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 01:00:45 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 1PQTwD-000180-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 01:00:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQTwC-0001vI-Lb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:00:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1280418876 17703 143.93.54.11 (29 Jul 2010 15:54:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:54:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0O0FawegwrIeJ9aVGiswx8p9p10= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-219-121.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180194 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:76258 Archived-At: Johan Bockgård writes: > Andreas Politz writes: > >> Stefan Monnier 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