From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .emacs - minor mode behavior Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:04:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1171403693.631853.279610@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171474906 21475 80.91.229.12 (14 Feb 2007 17:41:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:41:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 14 18:41:36 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HHO8K-0000tR-JI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:41:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HHO8K-00056S-A6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:41:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:04:31 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wxd0gurXDUCk3RHkVfStibAKz+A= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-nyhWH9szFrP/X4OLeUkvRamv4FDZoOTCQZvvSsz/+fDvPc3RN3Re22PNKFR8oEP8g0gFOiB8GmwWPeF!HLIPCIrEfaHUw46VjLOuQqgVw+rqNkeXGSpwAWCPnFZvVO39vVpQ0+2blLM3/tczAXwj3iXxwiko!yDU3it5S1HFvceagfg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145601 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41207 Archived-At: > (setq column-number-mode t) > I understand that this line is setting 'column-number-mode to t > (true). I also understand that this variable is created along with > the column-number-mode function by the define-minor-mode macro in > simple.el. And it just happens to work because the definition of the minor mode is sufficiently simple. Better to use (column-number-mode 1) -- Stefan