From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#32643: 26; minor-mode variables Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:51:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: <3ce888af-aa04-4dd2-99b5-0882e37024f3@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536213007 4391 195.159.176.226 (6 Sep 2018 05:50:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 05:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 32643@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 06 07:50:03 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnB4-0000yq-7a for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 07:50:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59485 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnDA-0003lp-Lw for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60921) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnD1-0003l1-FN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnD0-0000oi-An for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:42574) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnD0-0000nl-3J for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnCz-00073O-UA for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:52:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 05:52:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 32643 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 32643-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B32643.153621310927088 (code B ref 32643); Thu, 06 Sep 2018 05:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 32643) by debbugs.gnu.org; 6 Sep 2018 05:51:49 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47592 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnCl-00072p-Hs for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:51:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39799) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnCk-00072c-Mp for 32643@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:51:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnCe-0007xT-Iu for 32643@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:51:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33147) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnCb-0007m8-7T; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fxnCb-0005Ky-0P; Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:51:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <3ce888af-aa04-4dd2-99b5-0882e37024f3@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 5 Sep 2018 08:13:45 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:150070 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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)