From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: 64048@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64048: 30.0.50; global-display-line-numbers-mode has no easy way to set modes where it is enabled
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:49:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835y7rwbmb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875y7rs5s5.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:09:30 +0000)
> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: 64048@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2023 16:09:30 +0000
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> that will also define `display-line-numbers-modes' variable that
> >> controls where the global mode is enabled/disabled?
> >>
> >> Maybe it should even be the default in `define-globalized-minor-mode'
> >> when :predicate is not defined.
> >
> > I think it's too late for such changes, because it will definitely
> > break someone's setup.
>
> May you please elaborate?
>
> IMHO, the only way honouring `global-foo-modes' variable will break
> someone's setup is when somebody sets `global-foo-modes' (which has no
> effect now) and expects that there will be no effect in future as well.
I have enough gray hair to know that any such changes break something.
This mode has been with us since Emacs 26, so we cannot make such
changes after so much time. Especially since the problem, if there is
a problem, is minor at best.
Sorry.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-13 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-13 14:33 bug#64048: 30.0.50; global-display-line-numbers-mode has no easy way to set modes where it is enabled Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-13 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 16:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-13 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-06-13 17:21 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-13 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-13 19:36 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-14 11:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-14 12:48 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-17 7:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-17 18:30 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-06-17 18:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-17 19:06 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-17 19:04 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-17 19:18 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
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