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Shallowly override functions within a target function

I'm exploring options for monkey-patching and I'm wondering if the following is within reason. I would like to override a particular function within some target function so that calls within the ...
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How do I temporarily mock a function for testing?

I'd like to patch some elisp functions inside my unit tests. I've tried cl-labels and cl-flet, but neither achieve the result I want: (defun return-number () 1) (defun calls-return-number () (...
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Workaround for "Invalid search bound (wrong side of point)" in CC Mode

Emacs 24.x and 25.x have a bug in CC Mode which can result in some operations failing with the error Invalid search bound (wrong side of point) For example, I can reproduce it with the following ...
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How do you do runtime code swapping?

Does elisp have the "runtime code swapping" feature? mentioned in slide at 27:14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TlEqzptWr0&t=27m14s Hot code loading is the art of replacing an engine ...
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Any way to access a lexical let variable outside of the let?

I need to retrieve a local, lexical, runtime variable from a function, but I'm unable to modify the function to return it because it is from an external library. The variable I'm unable to reach is ...
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