On 1/18/07, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> Library `column-marker.el' provides commands that create column markers in
> the current buffer. AFAIK, no automatic way is provided to get the same
> effect in all buffers. However, you can always use a column-marker command
> in a mode hook, so that each buffer of that mode calls the command to
> create
> the same column marker.


So there is no simple way to just make it apply to all buffers?  There's no
"all-modes-hook" or anything like that?  This is so frustrating.  Someone
must have needed this functionality before I did.

Can I make edits to the mode to make it global?  I'm thinking about
margin.el, which uses the command margin-mode.  Here's the code in question:

;;;###autoload
(define-minor-mode margin-mode
  "Minor mode that displays a margin"
  nil " | " nil ;;Does the first nil here determine whether the mode is on
or off by default?
  (if margin-mode
      (progn
        (margin-overlay-on)
        (jit-lock-register 'margin-change)
        (setq margin-mode t))
    ;; else
    (progn
      (margin-overlay-off)
      (jit-lock-unregister 'margin-change)
      (setq margin-mode nil))))

I thought that I might be able to change that to make it global somehow.  In
another section of code somewhere else, I saw :global t at the beginning of
the define-minor-mode function.  However, it didn't work properly.  Are
there other things I need to do?  Would setting the first nil to t do the
trick?

Yours,
James Aguilar
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