Re: Minor modes and file names

[Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:57:11 +0100, steve-humphreys@gmx.com said:

    steve-humphreys> I have made a minor made for texinfo and noticed that the minor mode
    steve-humphreys> does not take effect unless tho file name matches the minor mode name.

    steve-humphreys> For instance, changing the name of the file to "crucible-mode-2021-01-28.el"
    steve-humphreys> the minor mode fails to load.

    steve-humphreys> ----- crucible-mode.el -----
    steve-humphreys> (define-minor-mode crucible-mode ...)
    steve-humphreys> (provide 'crucible-mode)

    steve-humphreys> ----- gtexinfo.el -----
    steve-humphreys> (add-to-list
    steve-humphreys>    'load-path "~/Genadm/build/gungadin-1.0/elisp/crucible")
    steve-humphreys> (require 'crucible-mode)
    steve-humphreys> (add-hook 'texinfo-mode-hook 'crucible-mode)

This is expected and documented:

    (require FEATURE &optional FILENAME NOERROR)

      Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 15.

    If feature FEATURE is not loaded, load it from FILENAME.
    If FEATURE is not a member of the list `features', then the feature is
    not loaded; so load the file FILENAME.

    If FILENAME is omitted, the printname of FEATURE is used as the file
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    name, and `load' will try to load this name appended with the suffix
    `.elc', `.el'