From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: replacing a function with another one Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:51:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87iorljkhx.fsf@web.de> References: <87vbvofsi6.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87bnxgs4r9.fsf@web.de> <87lhwj1cfz.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87zjkz6vd5.fsf@web.de> <8738ir161u.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87eh2b6nfm.fsf@web.de> <87r46anab5.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87vbvleiey.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87vbvlbm8p.fsf@web.de> <87siqpsdgs.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394520737 29215 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2014 06:52:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 06:52:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 11 07:52:26 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WNGY3-0001uS-3r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:52:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52582 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNGY2-0005Wn-Pk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:52:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNGXm-0005Wg-NJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNGXf-0004to-Aq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:52:06 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33480) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WNGXf-0004tg-4F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 02:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WNGXd-0001dQ-4o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:51:57 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-176-150.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.176.150]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:51:57 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-176-150.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 2014 07:51:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-176-150.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AUTL7nf7kIrc3aH+IaNdC0ZOIE4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96424 Archived-At: lee writes: > I can´t get advice-add to work. The documentation doesn´t explain it, That's not true. Technically you find everything you need to know in the documentation. The problem is that it does say nothing at all about usage in practice, no examples, etc. It's absolutely not sufficient for beginners. That's indeed a problem - there is already a bug report about it, btw. > and google doesn´t find any examples. It either doesn´t work, or I´m > getting weird error messages that don´t tell me anything. Code that > works fine when used in a function suddenly gives an error message that > says that setq is an invalid function. Remove the (setq something > tosomething) and suddenly all the rest of the function is invalid for no > reason. If you feel better with the "old" advice.el, just use this. It will probably be still supported in many years, just because many third party packages use it. Michael.