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From: dsill@NSWC-OAS.ARPA (Dave Sill)
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Subject: User defined functions
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 10:08:28 EDT
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I've been toying around with the idea of extending the macro concept.
What I envision is a facility whereby one could define a function in
the same manner as a macro.  This function could be given an
associated name like any other Emacs command, e.g. daves-foo-command.
In addition, there should be a facility for saving these definitions
in a file.

This approach would bridge the gap between volatile macro definitions
and full-fledged elisp or mocklisp extensions.  I, for one, don't have
the time to learn elisp, especially since there is not currently any
documentation for it and I don't already know lisp.

I'd like to know what others think about this.  Does it sound useful?
Would it be hard to implement?  Has it been considered before?

-Dave Sill
 dsill@nswc-oas.arpa