Re: globalized minor modes - priority over mode hook?

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> As an aside, it would be good to have a simple way to say "I don't
>> want global mode X applied to buffers Y, Z and W."
> 
> Yes, that would be a welcome addition.

I agree.  

Please consider hand-crafting global minor modes in some cases.

Take `visual-line-mode': What it does is to configure a number of variables, most of which are buffer-local:

(line-move-visual truncate-lines truncate-partial-width-windows word-wrap fringe-indicator-alist)

The classic way to configure a default for these would be `set-default'.  This seems cleaner and more efficient than automatically deriving a globalized version of the mode that runs (at least) at every major mode change and may then be turned off again by the mode hook.