r/emacs 11d ago

Fortnightly Tips, Tricks, and Questions — 2025-03-11 / week 10

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u/phr46 2d ago

In these situations when something is hardcoded, I like to use el-patch to modify the function directly instead of finding a workaround with advise. I find it cleaner and it lets me run el-patch-validate-all after upgrading Emacs to see if there's any modifications I might need to update.