On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:22:49 +0200 Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gm...@imap.cc> wrote:
RS> 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)) RS> Please don't do it this way! Gnus users have been bitten by bugs RS> caused by such aliasing (of `replace-regexp-in-string' in RS> color-theme). The recommended way is like this: RS> ,----[ (info "(elisp)Coding Conventions") ] RS> | * If a package needs to define an alias or a new function for RS> | compatibility with some other version of Emacs, name it with the RS> | package prefix, not with the raw name with which it occurs in the RS> | other version. Here is an example from Gnus, which provides many RS> | examples of such compatibility issues. RS> | RS> | (defalias 'gnus-point-at-bol RS> | (if (fboundp 'point-at-bol) RS> | 'point-at-bol RS> | 'line-beginning-position)) RS> `---- Sorry, I was doing a drive-by coding :) You're right, the recommended approach is much better. Ted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
