From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Johan_Bockg=C3=A5rd?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Redefining functions and variables Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:46:13 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87mxtaa4u2.fsf@gnu.org> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291860132 11897 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 02:02:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 02:02:12 +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 03:02:08 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 1PQVpf-0000N2-OG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:02:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38982 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQVpf-0003rK-0P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:02:07 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: Y9eCMnvzhlzvUZMJyBXJfg.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:TB09FH7PxsKXm74xWT+NseI+8Fs= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180182 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:76436 Archived-At: 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...)