Re: Defining functions on the fly

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 15.06.2015 um 12:00 schrieb Tassilo Horn:
> Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> writes:
>
> Hi Andreas,
>
> > have a bunch of subroutines which are useful in several modes -
> > beginning/end of expressions, string positions, comments etc.
> >
> > Now every mode should get its own prefix.
> I don't quite get what you are trying to achieve.  If your
> beginning-of-expression function is useful in a-mode, b-mode, and
> c-mode, what's the purpose of defining it three times?

AFAIU tab-completion of mode's symbols requires it equally prefixed.

> If you really want to have separate {a,b,c}-beginning-of-expression
> functions, then you could do it by defining aliases.
>
>    (dolist (prefix (list "a" "b" "c"))
>      (defalias (intern (concat prefix "-beginning-of-expression"))
>                #'beginning-of-expression))

That works, thanks!