Re: Change in files.el

[Mark Oteiza]

On 28/01/17 at 09:37pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 13:41:31 -0500
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> > 
> > Wasn't the reason any of these defaults changed simply so that
> > add-function would work?
> 
> Why is it important to support add-function, when we already have a
> variable that can be assigned a function value?  If someone wants to
> customize the feature which will call a variable's value if non-nil,
> they just need to write a function which does what they want and
> assign it to that variable, no need for add-function.  What am I
> missing?

You're not missing anything.