I've read a lot of ELisp code, and I have very rarely seen the equivalent of Ruby-style monkey patching. Even the advice mechanism, an AOP-like feature which en

I've read a lot of ELisp code, and I have very rarely seen the equivalent of Ruby-style monkey patching. Even the advice mechanism, an AOP-like feature which enables functions to be dynamically wrapped and chained, somewhat like Rails' alias_method_chain, is used sparingly. Instead, every mature Emacs extension exposes a plethora of "hooks", extension points that other packages can attach their own handlers to. Other packages add their handlers to these hooks, and to hooks that the core Emacs code provides, and thus they cooperate largely without collisions. -- http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/02/never-complain-only-ever-code.html http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/02/never-complain-only...