From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: dann@ics.uci.edu, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: turning on minor modes from hooks
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:32:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvhbvn5znk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5ur7hpi.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:15:53 +0900")
>>> A call with no arguments, as in (auto-save-mode), naturally ought to
>>> toggle the mode or turn it on.
>> Care to explain why?
> Note that he said "or turn it on"; I think the point was to distinguish
> those possibilities from "unconditionally turn it off".
Toggling is just wrong for it. I understand why it's like this right
now, but from an Lisp point of view, it's just not the right choice, and
there's no need here to distinguish a nil arg from the absence of an arg.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-31 23:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-29 21:25 turning on minor modes from hooks Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-29 23:18 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-30 0:14 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-30 2:11 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-30 3:01 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-30 3:58 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-30 3:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-30 4:00 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-31 3:33 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 14:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-31 22:15 ` Miles Bader
2009-08-31 23:32 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-09-01 0:17 ` Miles Bader
2009-09-01 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-01 16:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-01 23:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-03 13:47 ` Richard Stallman
2009-09-04 21:23 ` Geoff Gole
2009-08-31 15:30 ` Daniel Colascione
2009-08-31 18:54 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-01 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 23:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-09-01 2:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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