From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using variables to set defaults to parameters Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 11:24:03 -0500 Message-ID: References: <-FFY39s9gf027CaRqTOHR5D_xsFqho--WNpfqfGxVCqZebyGIOwTYInT6s8m2nNkEBEvuPRudAmVVAO4LwOCGp0OFNM7lKwmL3EP0obBLJo=@protonmail.com> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29501"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:LI2q/k/Ka4cO16KZgiFzWbq59Mg= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 03 17:25:46 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nFeva-0007ZF-9K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2022 17:25:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38712 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFevY-0003at-Rr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2022 11:25:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:37820) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFeu7-0003aS-Oe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2022 11:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:36696) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nFeu5-0007H6-JZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2022 11:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nFeu1-0005bJ-At for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Feb 2022 17:24:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135701 Archived-At: > I am currently defining a minor-mode with default parameters, but want > to pass defaulted variables instead. What is the way to do this, > using setq ? > > (define-minor-mode rich-minor-mode > "Brief description" nil "" nil Don't use this long obsolete form. Use the keyword arguments, instead: (define-minor-mode rich-minor-mode "Brief description" :lighter "") > then changed to > > (setq initval nil) > (setq mdline-indic "") > (setq other nil) I don't know what you mean with "then changed" nor where the above code is intended to be placed (inside the `define-minor-mode`? In some other function?). Stefan