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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
To: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: why is which-function-mode global?
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:35:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sjg6bfmb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1y5pyy9un.fsf@gmail.com> (Leo's message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:51:44 +0800")

I assume it because if you want that functionality anywhere, you're like
to want it everywhere, so enabling it in individual buffers would be a
pain.

Nowadays it'd probably be handled with a buffer-local mode plus a
globalized mode, but I think it predates define-globalized-minor-mode.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-14 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-14  8:51 why is which-function-mode global? Leo
2012-04-14 13:10 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2012-04-14 13:35 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2012-04-14 15:31   ` Andreas Röhler

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