Advising a non-interactive function?

Advising a non-interactive function?

[Elena]

Hello,

can you advise a function which takes arguments not available via
"interactive" (for instance: 'define-key')? How would the 'defadvice'
look?

Thanks

Re: Advising a non-interactive function?

[Joost Kremers]

Elena wrote:
> can you advise a function which takes arguments not available via
> "interactive" (for instance: 'define-key')? How would the 'defadvice'
> look?

what makes you think that a non-interactive function cannot be defadvice'd?


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Re: Advising a non-interactive function?

[Barry Margolin]

In article 
<cc34aef4-4080-4c67-a0c7-6bc9df2ba313@o13g2000vbl.googlegroups.com>,
 Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> can you advise a function which takes arguments not available via
> "interactive" (for instance: 'define-key')? How would the 'defadvice'
> look?

There's nothing about advice that's specific to interactive functions.  
The advice would look the same.

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Re: Advising a non-interactive function?

[Elena]

On 31 Ago, 20:33, Joost Kremers <joostkrem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> what makes you think that a non-interactive function cannot be defadvice'd?

According to the docs, every function can be advised, but I've never
seen an example showing how to advise a function which took arguments
not available by a call to 'interactive'. For instance, how would you
define a 'before advice' to 'define-key', whose prototype is this:

(define-key keymap key def)

Thanks.

Re: Advising a non-interactive function?

[Andreas Politz]

(defadvice define-key (before my-advice
                              (km k def)
                              activate)
  (message "The %s key will now be bound" k))

There are different possibilities.

(info "(elisp) Argument Access in Advice")

-ap