From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: turning line mode on/off with defun not working Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:35:12 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87iov1vnd2.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386355230 22437 80.91.229.3 (6 Dec 2013 18:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 18:40:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 06 19:40:34 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1Vp0K6-00018m-Vt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 19:40:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vp0K6-0005cc-FQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:40:22 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:QtYyF7hM/XU9RqBQwJEcOvBCqlk= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202587 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94856 Archived-At: Wes James writes: > I have these lines in my .emacs, but they don't > work. Why? (interactive), for starters. But you probably won't to enable this buffer-local. Also, check out the below Elisp for two simple "toggle" defuns - you don't need one to turn it off, and one to turn it on - think of it as a binary state machine (i.e., with two states). It only requires one operation, "do whatever I don't do know". ;;; show point position ;; column (defun char-mode () "Mode bar: Show the index of the character at point (first = 0)." (interactive) (set-variable 'column-number-mode (not column-number-mode) t) ) ; local (defalias 'cols 'char-mode) ;; line (defun line-mode () "Mode bar: Show the line number at point (first = 1)." (interactive) (set-variable 'line-number-mode (not line-number-mode) t) ) ; local (defalias 'lines 'line-mode) -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573