Re: Whence the future package?

I'm not sure how the future package is supposed to work, but I like the Lisp code that is universally loaded not to load the "advice" package. I don't use "advice" myself, and it has the nasty habit of loading the byte-compiler, which well-behaved code shouldn't do.

To preserve the docstring, you can put the `defun' inside `lexical-let', but then the arglist becomes "&rest --cl-rest--", which sucks. I'd use this: (fset 'pos-visible-in-window-p `(lambda (&optional pos window partially) "...docstring goes here..." (funcall ,(symbol-function 'pos-visible-in-window-p) pos window))) The only problem with this is that this lambda remains uncompiled. But since no macro expansions are involved, that's probably OK anyway.

I'll look into fixing `lexical-let' to generate more pleasant function arguments.