From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A few questions about desktop.el Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:20:49 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1122521878 2641 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2005 03:37:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:37:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 28 05:37:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxzDR-0000GY-BK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 05:37:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxzFr-0002XA-O9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:40:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DxzDh-0001ll-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:38:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DxzAr-0001CH-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:35:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxzAk-0001AB-G0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dxz8m-00032P-G5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:33:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Dxywz-0008Ro-2D; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:20:49 -0400 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-reply-to: (message from Juanma Barranquero on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:16:08 +0200) 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:41255 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:41255 > How many minor modes could you take care of with just those two? Difficult to say without looking at each one, particularly because we're talking not of the "normal" minor modes, but the ones that do a minor-mode work in a non-conventional way: highlight-change, overwrite, indent-tabs... How about if you start checking them. That is the only way to find out if these two variables would really improve the situation. You're gonna say "Then add a function to customize these two and we'll see whether we need to add anything more", aren't you? :) OK, I'll see what I can do. Not exactly. The first step is to see how much good this would do. Also, the customization mechanism for the minor modes to use does not have to be a function to call. It may be that an alist which major modes can add to would be cleaner. That's entirely a matter of details.