From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Automatic minor modes? Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:45:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87muy5hjw5.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: <87bmelj0p4.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523720660 3804 195.159.176.226 (14 Apr 2018 15:44:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 15:44:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 14 17:44:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1f7NLb-0000tj-Ou for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:44:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44270 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f7NNi-0007Xs-3q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:46:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48354) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f7NMn-0007WF-Dz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:45:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f7NMi-00087u-HX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:45:29 -0400 Original-Received: from hermes.netfonds.no ([80.91.224.195]:54629) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f7NMh-00086U-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:45:24 -0400 Original-Received: from 46.67.12.60.tmi.telenormobil.no ([46.67.12.60] helo=corrigan) by hermes.netfonds.no with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f7NMe-0007TK-RW; Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:45:22 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by corrigan with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1f7NMZ-0005Vr-77; Sat, 14 Apr 2018 17:45:15 +0200 In-Reply-To: (=?utf-8?Q?=22Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel"'s message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2018 11:39:42 -0400") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 80.91.224.195 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224596 Archived-At: Cl=C3=A9ment Pit-Claudel 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 makes sense. --=20 (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no