Re: called-interactively-p, cedet, and Emacs 23.1 and earlier

[Bruce Stephens]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> (defadvice beginning-of-defun (around senator activate)
>>   "Move backward to the beginning of a defun.
>> If semantic tags are available, use them to navigate."
>>   (if (and senator-minor-mode (cedet-called-interactively-p))
>>       (senator-beginning-of-defun (ad-get-arg 0))
>>     ad-do-it))
>
> Why not use beginning-of-defun-function rather than an advice?

I don't know.  Compatibility, maybe?  Or maybe just uniformity, since
the same file also has defadvice for narrow-to-defun, mark-defun,
c-mark-function, add-log-current-defun, insert-register,
jump-to-register, not all of which have hooks, I guess.