Re: How to use defadvice without infinite loop

[Stefan Monnier]

> (defadvice save-some-buffers(before my-save-some-buffers activate)
>   "Ask to save buffers."
>   (interactive)
>   ;; Prevent infinite loop
>   (ad-deactivate-regexp "my-save-some-buffers")
>   (save-some-buffers nil 'my-always-save)
>   (ad-activate-regexp "my-save-some-buffers"))

You can try an `around' advice instead of a `before' advice, and then put
two `ad-do-it' in there, modifying the args in between the two calls.
Pretty ugly as well.  Maybe the doc suggests a cleaner way to do what
you want.


        Stefan