From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it wrong for a minor-mode to modify major-mode settings. Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:10:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1460722278 20725 80.91.229.3 (15 Apr 2016 12:11:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 12:11:18 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 15 14:11:09 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ar2ab-0005RC-DQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:11:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32980 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ar2aa-0002eT-DV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41661) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ar2aV-0002bQ-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:11:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ar2aS-0003dl-KQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:34040) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ar2aS-0003dh-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 08:11:00 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ar2aR-0005MI-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from 45.72.141.36 ([45.72.141.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:10:59 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 45.72.141.36 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2016 14:10:59 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.72.141.36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HU+Unw/69XGWeoNwhrCuzmrhUXo= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:202949 Archived-At: > Is it wrong (or against convention) if a minor-mode changes major-mode > configurations: It's definitely not wrong. It's maybe somewhat unusual but not against convention either. > specifically: I need to have a minor mode run only for c-mode, which > deletes some keywords in c-mode and introduces several new keywords. > Also, this minor mode shall change a few syntax rules. Is it better to > create a derived mode for this? You might be better off with a derived mode, indeed. But it all depends on the particular case. Stefan