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Re: other-buffer advice on kill-buffer
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David Kastrup |
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Re: other-buffer advice on kill-buffer |
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Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:18:02 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> That's not correct. You can advise a primitive function, but the
> advice will only affect calls to that function made from Lisp, not
> calls from other primitives.
>
> It may be that in a few special cases
> we should modify calls within C code to some primitive functions
> so that they call the Lisp symbol.
> That way, it would work to advise those functions.
>
> To do this for all the primitive functions would be impossible, I
> think, and certainly not worth the pain. But there might be a few
> functions for which this would be particularly useful, and it might be
> worth doing this for them.
If it is worth making it advisable, it is worth giving it a hook.
The problem is that advice is intended for adding functionality that has
not been imagined previously. So it is hard to think of a case where
one would explicitly make a function advisable.
--
David Kastrup
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- Re: other-buffer advice on kill-buffer, Richard Stallman, 2011/08/03
- Re: other-buffer advice on kill-buffer, Tim Cross, 2011/08/04
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- Re: other-buffer advice on kill-buffer, Jérémy Compostella, 2011/08/04
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