RE: Crappyness of Emacs Version 24.5.1 defadvice

[Drew Adams]

> > The old behavior is preferable so I know which file the advice
> > is coming from.
> 
> Could someone tell me how to get the old behavior back?

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14734
("REGRESSION: defadvice broken wrt doc strings (C-h f)")

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=14070
("incorrect doc from `C-h f' when use `defadvice' with `before'")

This post by Stefan provides the rationale behind the new advice
system.  (You might want to read the rest of the thread too.)
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=16402#31
("Document nadvice.el stuff in Elisp manual before Emacs 24.4")