Re: How to change definition of gnus-summary-exit?

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>]

On Oct 15 2015, Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> wrote:
> Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
>
>>>>> What is happening here?  Why does the help refer me to the modified
>>>>> version, but the version in memory is actually the original one?  And
>>>>> how do I tell emacs/gnus to use my version?
>>>
>>> Why do you copy the complete gnus-sum.el when you just want to
>>> change one function?  As a result, you won't see any future changes of
>>> gnus-sum.el (bugfixes and new features).
>>
>> Not quite, the 'modified version' is actually a clone of the gnus git
>> repo.
>
> Ah, I see.  Well, then I'd just use the complete git version if I were
> you.

That's what I'm trying to do. Isn't putting the lisp/ directory from the
git clone sufficient to achieve that?

>>> What do you want to change exactly?  Oftentimes, a simple advice will
>>> do without having to override the complete function.
>>
>> What's an advice (in this context)?
>
> An advice is a function which is run before, after, instead of, or
> "around" some other function.  See (info "(elisp)Advising Functions").

Uh, that's pretty cool. It seems I need to do some reading.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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