From: goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: goncholden via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Turning electric-indent-mode off, for a specific buffer
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 12:01:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ijGDosSV6chbrEV2xTHcGUGzLTecHwqYLFJEED5YXgFM3NIIfg5W3zUEjbbZHa_-nh-DdfLpsDmcpxt9R_o3Xzv3sqFB8weJB4sQV2UwuMM=@protonmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k0odc76.fsf@yahoo.com>
------- Original Message -------
On Monday, June 13th, 2022 at 11:39 PM, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> goncholden goncholden@protonmail.com writes:
>
> > Doing "C-h v electric-indent-mode" says that setting this variable
> > directly does not take effect, but one can customize it. It is very
> > confusing. How is it ok to customize it and what happens when you do?
> >
> > Perhaps this needs change so one does not customize it?
>
>
> electric-indent-mode is a global minor mode.
> Customizing it turns the mode on or off, while setting the variable
> itself has no effect.
Then customizing electric-indent-mode does not customize the variable but the minor-mode? If I remember correctly, when defining a minor-mode, a variable is also created automatically. From your discussion, it seems that there would also exist a function with the same name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-13 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-12 21:20 Turning electric-indent-mode off, for a specific buffer goncholden via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-06-13 0:26 ` Po Lu
2022-06-13 1:31 ` goncholden
2022-06-13 2:25 ` Po Lu
2022-06-13 5:21 ` goncholden
2022-06-13 5:42 ` Po Lu
2022-06-13 6:07 ` goncholden
2022-06-13 10:53 ` goncholden
2022-06-13 11:39 ` Po Lu
2022-06-13 12:01 ` goncholden [this message]
2022-06-13 12:15 ` Po Lu
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