From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `customize-customized' and mode variable of a minor mode Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:59:41 +0200 Message-ID: <4616A6AD.3060902@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175896116 25742 80.91.229.12 (6 Apr 2007 21:48:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 21:48:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 06 23:48:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZub1-0002IB-Gu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:59:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZueW-0000PR-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZueU-0000PL-7h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:03:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZueT-0000P8-5c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZueT-0000P5-0e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZuaw-0004M1-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:59:38 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:62687 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HZuaq-0005Wt-9P; Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:59:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000731-0, 2007-04-06), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HZuaq-0005Wt-9P. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HZuaq-0005Wt-9P 1dbaa050d42dbf54a1d7ef5dd9d52020 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69145 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > Toggling a mode changes the value of the mode variable. Why would a user > want to save that new value? You might toggle a (global) minor mode several > times during an Emacs session. Turning the mode on and off doesn't imply > that you want to change the saved value. I don't see a use case for that. If the global minor mode is at the state currently saved by Custom it will not show up in customize-customized. I often put toggling of global minor modes in the menus. I seems conventient to me to be able to save the state of those minor modes through customize-customized then.