Re: equivalent of make-local-variable for defun?

[Barry Margolin]

In article 
<1d3363bf-4c06-4424-832a-5abe06f560a0@z6g2000pre.googlegroups.com>,
 jrwats <jrwats@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to fix a mode using comint for an inferior lisp that
> apparently needs to overwrite  comint-send-region.  I'd rather it not
> overwrite ALL buffers' (including my shell-mode buffer) comint-send-
> region function.
> 
> Is there a way to define a function but local to the current buffer as
> when you define a local variable in make-local-variable?

You could define around-advice on the function that checks the mode, or 
looks at the value of a buffer-local variable.  If it's in a buffer that 
needs your fix, it runs the advice, otherwise it falls through to the 
regular function.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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