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From: Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
	30978@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: bug#30978: 25.3; Suggestion: define-minor-mode should define mode-lighter variable
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 10:57:13 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <97892e0eebeeff0413287058d68ad86b@webmail.orcon.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pmwadno8.fsf@gnus.org>

On 2021-06-26 02:27, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Does anybody else have an opinion here?  The suggestion is to make
> define-minor-mode define a `foo-mode-lighter' variable that users can
> then change to easily change the lighters.

It sounds like a good change.

> Or do we have a separate mechanism for this somewhere?

We do in GNU ELPA (see https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DelightedModes
regarding the one I wrote, delight.el), but that and similar libraries
mostly exist because there wasn't something as trivial as a variable
to set.

Delight also takes care of synchronising the label in `mode-line-menu'
(down-mouse-3 on `mode-line-modes'), as well as allowing custom names
for major modes via the same UI -- but providing an easy way to set
minor mode lighters was the actual reason for writing it.


-Phil






  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-25 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-28 20:11 bug#30978: 25.3; Suggestion: define-minor-mode should define mode-lighter variable Howard Melman
2019-07-14 13:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
     [not found]   ` <CADwFkmk-oFgHAwgcZ=-utkBU303x4vF9c9vkuUfpkPinL7Q0KQ@mail.gmail.com>
2020-08-23 12:22     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-25 14:27       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-25 22:57         ` Phil Sainty [this message]
2021-07-25  7:59           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-25 16:43             ` Howard Melman
2021-07-28 15:31               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-28 19:10                 ` Howard Melman
2021-07-29 12:11                   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-28 20:00                 ` Kévin Le Gouguec

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