From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rsharman@pobox.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: highlight-changes-mode Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:16:23 -0400 Message-ID: <17725.23383.490888.442550@cube.homenetwork> References: <17721.60660.980363.609046@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161662824 9344 80.91.229.2 (24 Oct 2006 04:07:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 04:07:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, Richard Sharman , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 24 06:07:01 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcDZ7-0005rM-1z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 06:07:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcDZ6-0006pM-HV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:07:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GcA4V-0008E5-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GcA4T-0008Bk-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GcA4T-0008Bb-NR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.217.78.176] (helo=mx4-1.spamtrap.magma.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GcA4S-00046U-Tk; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail2.magma.ca (mail2.internal.magma.ca [10.0.10.12]) by mx4-1.spamtrap.magma.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9O0N1Ho018368; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:23:02 -0400 Original-Received: from cube.homenetwork (ottawa-hs-209-217-99-246.d-ip.magma.ca [209.217.99.246]) by mail2.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id k9O0N01N031395; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:23:01 -0400 Original-Received: by cube.homenetwork (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A9CD152EC7; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:16:23 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-magma-MailScanner-Information: Magma Mailscanner Service X-magma-MailScanner: Clean X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:06:48 -0400 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:61089 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > Is there an important reason to overload M-x highlight-changes-mode > for toggling between active and passive mode? Would it be > inconvenient to make that a separate command, so that M-x > highlight-changes-mode could follow the conventions for minor modes? I'm sure there's no good reason that it has to work the way it does. I think it just "seemed like a good idea at the time", but as you say it isn't consistent with other modes. I can take a look into it in a couple of days. Richard