"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
Richard Stallman wrote:
I think that `interactive' codes are much better than symbol properties
for defining the meaning of a command.
Yes, but the problem here is rather that you may need to redefine
which commands should deactivate the mark. Doing that with a symbol
property makes it much more flexible.
Read "flexible" as "conveniently hot-patchable around things not
designed for it". We have a policy not to use advice (another hotpatch
facility) for components distributed as part of Emacs because we want
all information pertaining to a particular function accessible and
readable from a single location in a clear manner.
I don't see this any different. If there is a need for a user to
hot-patch around functions not designed for it, advice is still
available.