From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Hooks in minor modes Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:17:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5320"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:NrFMte7UHKRa8/kqf3/HHiUd+DM= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 30 07:17:55 2021 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 1lcLXG-0001Go-VN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 07:17:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37900 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcLXG-0006gw-0y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:17:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36160) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcLWs-0006gQ-1m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53488) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcLWq-0006Lk-FC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lcLWn-0000ns-SM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 07:17:25 +0200 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: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:129207 Archived-At: > That would mean that simply calling > > (require 'my-minor-mode) > > would not automatically activate the functionality provided by > 'my-minor-mode', Of course not. > unless the user specifically calls another function called > 'activate-my-minor-mode'. Don't `require`, just call the function *instead*. BTW, the activation function is the minor mode function, so to activate a global minor mode, just add the following in your .emacs: (my-minor-mode 1) or alternatively activate it via Custom. No need for a separate `activate-my-minor-mode`. > Quite suitable for new users because they can simply call just > the following two commands. > > (require 'my-minor-mode) > (activate-my-minor-mode) No, just (my-minor-mode 1) If the package is properly installed (e.g. via `M-x package-install`), the function should be marked as autoloaded (if not, send a bug report to the package maintainer), so you don't need to `require` before calling the function. Stefan