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Re: Overriding self-insert-command doesn't work
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Overriding self-insert-command doesn't work |
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Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:25:40 -0400 |
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In article <1173724258.067960.37960@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com>,
"spamfilteraccount@gmail.com" <spamfilteraccount@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 12, 6:23 pm, "Robert Thorpe" <rtho...@realworldtech.com> wrote:
> >
> > The command "self-insert-command" is inbuilt to Emacs. It is part of
> > the static binary executable and is called directly by other parts of
> > that executable. Changing it cannot change this version.
>
> That's not very nice, is it? Regardless of whether it's built-in,
> implemented in C, it should behave as a proper lisp symbol. I don't
> see why built-in functions should have to call the internal
> implementation of self-insert-command directly rather than invoking
> the function in the symbol's function slot.
>
> Isn't it a bug?
When C functions call other C functions they use the normal C linker,
they don't go through the Lisp interpreter.
It would be possible for them to do this, but it would require extra
coding and would probably have performance implications.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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