Re: replacing a function with another one

[Jambunathan K]

lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:

>> Another good approach is to take hi-lock.el, modify it (as little as
>> possible) to provide the feature you want, and then to submit the patch
>> for inclusion in a future Emacs.
>
> I´d love to do that, and I think it could be done.  I´d mostly have to
> add some things to it and probably wouldn´t need to modify what´s
> already there.
>
> How would I do that?  hi-lock.el is part of emacs, which is in a bzr
> repo from which I update every now and then.  I could take the current
> version of hi-lock.el and put it into a git repo to work on it.  In the
> meantime, the original version may change.  Then what?

Where there is a will there is a way.