From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: global minor modes that can be overridden locally? [was: highlight-changes-mode] Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:02:50 +0100 Message-ID: <457F351A.9070200@student.lu.se> References: <457CB189.9040908@student.lu.se> <457E21B4.90306@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165964697 9470 80.91.229.10 (12 Dec 2006 23:04:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 13 00:04:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GuGg6-0001ot-JQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:04:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuGg6-0005Rs-5I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:04:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuGeE-0003E2-9r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:02:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GuGe9-000371-FM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:02:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GuGe9-00036i-6q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:02:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.212] (helo=ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GuGe7-0000D0-IW; Tue, 12 Dec 2006 18:02:47 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:59539 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GuGe5-0004ET-66; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:02:46 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0657-2, 2006-12-12), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1GuGe5-0004ET-66. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1GuGe5-0004ET-66 48cc4ed0862ec28be8d1232747ab4cea 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:63657 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > The naming scheme does not matter to me very much. What I tried to argue > about was that when we define a new global minor mode with > define-minor-mode it should define functions for us for toggling both > locally and globally. > > The easiest way to do this would be to add a call > to define-global-minor-mode for each call to define-minor-mode. > The arguments are not the same. > > But I am not convinced every mode needs a global variant. > To me it seems more plausible that a global minor mode needs a buffer local variant.