Re: Request for help: advice-lite

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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?

If it's small enough, yes, of course.  It might not be the easiest
way to get there, tho.

>> 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.

You can get the same behavior in 2 different ways:
- (unwind-protect (progn (ad-enable-advice ...) ...) (ad-disable-advice ...))
- Make your advice check `my-advice-condition' and then do
  (let ((my-advice-condition 'enabled)) ....)


        Stefan