From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: why is which-function-mode global? Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 21:35:40 +0800 Message-ID: <87sjg6bfmb.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334410559 11328 80.91.229.3 (14 Apr 2012 13:35:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:35:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Leo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 14 15:35:58 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ38u-0002XM-Ly for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 15:35:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46132 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ38t-0005Js-Vm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:35:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40529) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ38r-0005JW-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:35:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ38q-0005PM-3f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:35:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:36645) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ38p-0005PD-VP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:35:52 -0400 Original-Received: from bb220-255-229-180.singnet.com.sg ([220.255.229.180]:51282 helo=ulysses) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SJ38n-0003Hb-Ro; Sat, 14 Apr 2012 09:35:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Leo's message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2012 16:51:44 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.95 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:149657 Archived-At: 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.