Re: Should outline-minor-mode be globalized?

[raman <raman@google.com>]

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

Hi John,


The following is admittedly a power-user scenario, but other places 
(other than text-mode) where I have turned on outline-minor-mode:

1. w3-mode in the past 
2. eww-mode 

Both of the above when reading ebooks from places like Project
Gutenberg.

In many of those instances, you can productively jump by chapter etc by
appropriately setting outline-regexp to something like "^CHAPTER" and
then using outline-minor-mode navigation commands.

--Raman 
>>>>>> raman  <raman@google.com> writes:
>
>> It's nice to be able to globally turn on font-lock mode; on a similar note,
>> it would be nice to be able to turn on outline-minor-mode globally -- rather
>> than setting mode-specific hooks to turn on outline-minor-mode.
>
>> Is there any risk in globalizing outline-minor-mode?
>
> Wouldn't it really just be applicable in text-mode derived buffers? I have a
> hard time seeing its value when turned on for dired, Gnus, *Help*,
> compilation, etc.

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