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I cannot find a predefined command in nadvice to easily unadvise a function in Emacs 24.5.1. Something like:

(defun advice-unadvice (sym)
  "Remove all advices from symbol SYM."
  (interactive "aFunction symbol:")
  (advice-mapc `(lambda (fun props) (advice-remove ,(quote sym) fun)) sym))

Is there such a thing predefined?

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    I haven't come across a use case where you would need to interactively add/remove advices. Normally you put advice-add or advice-remove in a package or config and then forget about it.
    – Kaushal Modi
    Jul 18, 2016 at 13:11
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    @KaushalModi It is useful for trouble-shooting in the case that you have several modifications of a badly performing function and you want to see whether the original version does behave normally.
    – Tobias
    Nov 16, 2016 at 3:21
  • @KaushalModi: Isearch+ provides a good use case, I think. It lets you dynamically add and remove any number of Isearch filter predicates (aka search filters) while searching incrementally. This means add/remove advice interactively - see Dynamic Isearch Filtering.
    – Drew
    Apr 27, 2017 at 15:20
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    Another use case is if you (I did) added a lambda advice.
    – ibizaman
    Sep 7, 2017 at 13:53

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(defun advice-unadvice (sym)
  "Remove all advices from symbol SYM."
  (interactive "aFunction symbol: ")
  (advice-mapc (lambda (advice _props) (advice-remove sym advice)) sym))
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  • Okay, this should also work. But, this is more like a comment and not an answer to the actual question.
    – Tobias
    Jul 18, 2016 at 10:12
  • Maybe the question was not clear enough. Then it is not your fault that you gave this comment as an answer. I've edited my question to make it more clear. -- Thanks for the response!
    – Tobias
    Jul 18, 2016 at 10:18
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    I've submitted a patch to add advice-remove-all to nadvice.el.
    – Tianxiang Xiong
    Apr 27, 2017 at 3:49
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    A shame it hasn't been implemented.
    – RichieHH
    Apr 17, 2021 at 11:33

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