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From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
To: 30978@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30978: 25.3; Suggestion: define-minor-mode should define mode-lighter variable
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:11:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C0EA6366-1848-4EF9-A963-9197E672B4E6@gmail.com> (raw)

Some packages define a user option to let users configure
the lighter string used in the mode-line, but some just use
a hard coded string. Packages such as diminish, delight and
dim exist to help customize these.

The define-minor-mode macro creates keymaps and other things
to help mode authors follow conventions. If it created a
mode-lighter user option when passed in a string (and not a
symbol) then users would have an easier time configuring
their mode-line without having to find and install a package
to do so.

Howard

In GNU Emacs 25.3.3 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, Carbon Version 157 AppKit 1265.21)
of 2017-09-28 built on Atago.local





             reply	other threads:[~2018-03-28 20:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-28 20:11 Howard Melman [this message]
2019-07-14 13:40 ` bug#30978: 25.3; Suggestion: define-minor-mode should define mode-lighter variable 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
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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