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From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Automatic minor modes?
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:40:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <533e5cc6-977e-29bf-5fd3-52380e76ea0c@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87muy5hjw5.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>

On 2018-04-14 11:45, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 2018-04-14 10:56, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>>> Do we have a method for this?  That is, a way to say "this major mode
>>> will activate these minor modes, unless the user has disabled that"?
>>
>> The way it's usually done is with a globalized minor mode.  The major
>> mode then sets a variable (eldoc-documentation-function, or
>> prettify-symbols-alist), and the minor mode turns itself on based on
>> that variable.
> 
> Ah, I see.  So `hide-password-mode' would be a globalized minor mode
> that's on by default, and the ~/.authinfo major mode would set a
> `hide-password-alist' (or something) buffer-local variable to signal
> that it should do its work in that buffer?

That's how I would do it, yup.



      reply	other threads:[~2018-04-14 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-14 14:56 Automatic minor modes? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-14 11:49 ` Charles A. Roelli
2018-04-14 18:59   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-14 15:23 ` Yuri Khan
2018-04-14 15:27   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-06-27  1:31     ` Ted Zlatanov
2018-07-22 12:26       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-07-22 15:51         ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-07-22 19:01           ` Stefan Monnier
2018-07-22 20:06             ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-10-08  1:05               ` Ted Zlatanov
2018-10-08 14:57                 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-09 19:44                   ` Ted Zlatanov
2018-10-14  3:59                     ` Ted Zlatanov
2018-10-14 14:44                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-14 15:48                         ` Ted Zlatanov
2018-10-14 16:05                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-14 18:23                           ` Hiding passords in authinfo (was: Automatic minor modes?) Stefan Monnier
2018-10-14 19:31                             ` Hiding passords in authinfo Ted Zlatanov
2018-10-14 20:55                               ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-14 15:39 ` Automatic minor modes? Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-14 15:45   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-14 16:40     ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]

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