From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Redefining functions and variables Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:22:15 +1000 Organization: Unlimited download news at news.astraweb.com Message-ID: <87y6cund2g.fsf@puma.rapttech.com.au> 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> <878w4u9gcq.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 1291852106 13918 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 23:48:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:48:26 +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 00:48:22 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 1PQTkD-0004Cj-G4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:48:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45069 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQTkC-0003x8-Lr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:48:20 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8b+AunD1vTw8hNeftQ+sALuRZD4= Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cd2c85e6.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=T3Lf>aCNY@n<^_jE4S2b@oL?0kYOcDh@jSBc; \8ijUdkhN4I_H=aZhkXK1W9^[Ji:jZE4?BADJmNd Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180211 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:76240 Archived-At: Johan Bockgård writes: > Elena writes: > >>> (defmacro defun (name args &rest body) >>> `(progn >>> (message "defining %S" name) >>> (,old-defun ,name ,args ,@body))) >> >> This is very close to what I was looking for. > > Note that neither defadvice nor redefinition of defun will work for > (already) byte compiled code. > > > (byte-compile (lambda () (defun foo ()))) => > > #[nil "..." [defalias foo #[nil "..." [nil] 1]] 3] > ^ > no `defun' after byte compilation Not sure what you mean here, but I have lots of defadvice that is defined for functions that are already defined and byte compiled which work fine i.e. I use defadvice to advise standard emacs lisp functions regularly without problems. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au