From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `xterm-mouse-mode' has a bogus Custom group Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:02:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <200504020351.j323ppS16391@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16974.11752.332998.125628@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200504021346.j32Dk3e19471@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16978.12100.857894.861739@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200504060000.j3600bm15264@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16979.20638.871209.55398@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200504070045.j370j0J27252@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16981.58243.428189.615765@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200504081605.j38G5ia15320@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16982.64939.154130.463783@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <200504090406.j3946HQ22712@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <01c53d89$Blat.v2.4$96f0bb20@zahav.net.il> <200504101318.j3ADID528159@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <16985.40932.272577.252728@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113368649 28781 80.91.229.2 (13 Apr 2005 05:04:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 05:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 13 07:04:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLa2a-0007RI-M7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:03:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLZd1-0007G0-RY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:37:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLZbs-0006qA-KS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:36:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DLZbm-0006mT-3i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DLZbj-0006k1-5d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 00:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DLa1f-0006Au-95 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:02:55 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DLa1J-0000Ec-El; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:02:33 -0400 Original-To: Nick Roberts In-reply-to: <16985.40932.272577.252728@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (message from Nick Roberts on Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:51:32 +1200) 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:35925 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:35925 In the case of define-minor-mode, perhaps it could be arranged that, for example, (tooltip-mode 2) sets tooltip-mode to the standard value. It would be a mistake to change a general Enacs convention just to save some lines in startup.el. Quite the contrary; I would gladly pay the price of additional code in startup.el in order to make some general Emacs convention cleaner.