From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Redefining functions and variables Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:14:23 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: 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> <507c3b70-7530-4961-84a7-c5bfb4061831@f6g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291851756 12396 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 23:42:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 23:42:36 +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 00:42:32 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 1PQTeX-0000yt-LJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:42:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56531 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQTcq-0008Vi-Sb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:40:44 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Injection-Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:14:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="q8gLPzp46U2R+2DD9zVgGw"; logging-data="11550"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Dgo/cRug2xsbRBpLVbknY" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Jn8D7MBR2nHhXVuaqR5Sd2C3qCc= sha1:nwhqfMqufhHEIfVx5IcPiIk74AU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:180187 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:76212 Archived-At: >> 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. > Do you mean macros can be adviced too? That's not what I meant (I meant to redefine with `defadvice' rather than with `defun'), but that's also the case (i.e. redefine with defadvice rather than with defmacro). Stefan