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@node Porting old advice
@subsection Adapting code using the old defadvice
@cindex old advices, porting
+@c NB: The following index entries deliberately avoid ``old'',
+@c an adjective that does not come to mind for those who grew up
+@c on ‘defadvice’ et al. For those folks, that way is ``current''.
+@c They discover its oldness reading this node.
+@cindex advices, porting from @code{defadvice}
+@findex defadvice
+@findex ad-activate
A lot of code uses the old @code{defadvice} mechanism, which is largely made
obsolete by the new @code{advice-add}, whose implementation and semantics is