Re: allout compatibility layer

[Stefan Monnier]

> (when (featurep 'xemacs)
>   (defun allout-mark-topic () (outline-mark-topic))
>   ...)

If I were you I wouldn't check (featurep 'xemacs) since the XEmacs package
may also switch to the "allout-" prefix in the future and because Emacs also
used the "outline-" prefix until very recently (e.g. in Emacs-21.4).
You could check (fboundp 'allout-mark-topic) or (fboundp
'outline-mark-topic).

As for what you want to do, you can do

  (defun allout-mark-topic (&rest args) (apply 'outline-mark-topic args))

which will just pass whichever args are provided.  But what you really want
to use instead is:

  (defalias 'allout-mark-topic 'outline-mark-topic)


-- Stefan