From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org, d.love@dl.ac.uk
Subject: Re: problem of define-minor-mode while bootstrapping
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:00:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020921020041.GA1545@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200209201838.g8KIc8t13414@rum.cs.yale.edu>
On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 02:38:08PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> The reason for this little piece of code is so as to call (foo-mode 1) when
> people do (setq foo-mode t) in their .emacs and then load foo-mode.el.
> But people shouldn't use (setq foo-mode t), they should use (foo-mode 1)
> instead anyway.
> So I'd rather use that code less often rather than more often.
CAn we just get rid of it?
That particular `feature' has always seemed like something just as likely to
cause confusion, as to actually help people.
-Miles
--
P.S. All information contained in the above letter is false,
for reasons of military security.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-21 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-19 13:20 problem of define-minor-mode while bootstrapping Kenichi Handa
2002-09-19 13:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-09-20 0:06 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-09-20 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-09-21 1:57 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-09-22 22:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-09-23 2:08 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-09-23 18:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-09-24 3:06 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-09-24 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-09-24 23:45 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-09-21 2:00 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-09-22 15:55 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-25 22:50 ` Dave Love
2002-09-26 21:45 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-27 14:09 ` Dave Love
2002-09-28 3:19 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-30 6:26 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-10-18 7:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-18 8:38 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-10-20 5:34 ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-02 22:49 ` Dave Love
2002-10-04 3:49 ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-22 21:40 ` Stefan Monnier
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