bug#21007: Acknowledgement (25.0.50; Around advice doesn't seem to work)

[Mark Karpov]

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I've many pieces of advice in my configuration file, they all work fine
(without ‘ad-activate’, just with ‘advice-add’). I didn't know that I
need to explicitly activate them.

If advice need to be activated, there should be consistency in
that. Either all pieces of advice must be activated or none. But this is
just my opinion, perhaps ‘advice-add’ can activate stuff by default or
something.

As for ‘ad-activate’, I only can say that despite the fact that my
advice is visible in description of ‘dired-create-directory’, when I
evaluate

  (ad-activate 'dired-create-directory)

I get clear message that ‘dired-create-directory’ is not advised. This
blows my mind.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "ad-activate: `dired-create-directory' is 
not advised")
  signal(error ("ad-activate: `dired-create-directory' is not advised"))
  error("ad-activate: `%s' is not advised" dired-create-directory)
  ad-activate(dired-create-directory)
  mk-disable-ido(dired-create-directory)
  (progn (mk-disable-ido (quote dired-create-directory)))
  eval((progn (mk-disable-ido (quote dired-create-directory))) t)
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  #<subr call-interactively>(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  ad-Advice-call-interactively(#<subr call-interactively> eval-last-sexp nil 
nil)
  apply(ad-Advice-call-interactively #<subr call-interactively> (eval-last-sexp 
nil nil))
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  command-execute(eval-last-sexp)