Re: Is it valid to call isearch-filter-predicate outside isearch?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

>> 2. It feels against the interface. If advising this predicate is
>>    expected, why not convert it into an abnormal hook?
>
> It's more flexible and expressive, as Drew already mentioned.  For
> example, how the members of a hook are logically combined (`and'ed,
> `or'ed) is fixed in a hook, but not when using advising.

Interesting.
From Elisp Tips in the manual, I always felt that using advices is
always frowned upon. And you are suggesting that they are the better way
to go in these situations.
I am wondering if this thing with modifying predicates should be
documented somewhere and recommended approach.

> I also wonder about the `kill-variable' calls: what if the user or a
> third-party mode want to have own buffer-local settings for these?  We then erase
> them when killing the local variables.  With using an advice on these
> the worst thing that could happen is that we leave a buffer local
> variable with the same binding as the global one, where we started with
> no buffer local binding.

May you please elaborate? I am not sure what `kill-variable' calls you
are referring to here.

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