Re: Request for help: advice-lite

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> Advice.el is a very nice library, but sadly there are many places in Emacs
> where we could use it but we don't because of advice.el's size.

[...]

> Any taker?

I assume you'd be happy if one were to just copy advice.el to advice-lite.el,
and then rip out everything you don't want?

> PS: The intention is of course not to encourage people to advise more
> functions, but rather to avoid people using flet/letf/fset/... to roll their
> own form of function-override which typically makes bug more difficult to
> track down, because the presence of an override may not be obvious.

One feature of letf that advising does not provide is that the override only
covers a very specific range in the code.  Advice typically persists
throughout one's entire session.

John