On Mon, Apr 04 2011, Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> (unless (featurep 'bbdb3) ; or whatever
> (defalias 'bbdb-search-organization 'bbdb-company)
> (defalias 'bbdb-search-name 'bbdb-name))
Please don't do it this way! Gnus users have been bitten by bugs
caused by such aliasing (of `replace-regexp-in-string' in
color-theme). The recommended way is like this:
,----[ (info "(elisp)Coding Conventions") ]
| * If a package needs to define an alias or a new function for
| compatibility with some other version of Emacs, name it with the
| package prefix, not with the raw name with which it occurs in the
| other version. Here is an example from Gnus, which provides many
| examples of such compatibility issues.
|
| (defalias 'gnus-point-at-bol
| (if (fboundp 'point-at-bol)
| 'point-at-bol
| 'line-beginning-position))
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