From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 32643@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32643: 26; minor-mode variables
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:51:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1fxnCb-0005Ky-0P@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ce888af-aa04-4dd2-99b5-0882e37024f3@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 5 Sep 2018 08:13:45 -0700 (PDT))
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> It doesn't say why some do and some don't. Why doesn't it? What's the
> answer to that question? For example, why doesn't variable
> `auto-fill-mode' exist? Shouldn't all minor modes have a variable?
> Which ones should?
It is not crucial for the manual to answer "why" questions.
If this one were easy to answer, it could be worth answering.
But in fact this one would be a lot of work.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-05 15:13 bug#32643: 26; minor-mode variables Drew Adams
2018-09-06 5:51 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2018-09-06 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-06 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 2:07 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-08 2:25 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 20:33 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-09 22:09 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-12 0:51 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-12 1:46 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-13 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-13 13:28 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-09-09 6:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 14:12 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 7:27 ` Andreas Röhler
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2018-09-06 14:51 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-06 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-07 0:10 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 13:58 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-08 17:53 ` Andreas Röhler
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2018-09-07 15:07 ` Drew Adams
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