I totally agree - such lighters are quite confusing. I think the practice of using punctuation characters only for minor-mode lighters should be discouraged.
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Cheers,
Bozhidar

On August 14, 2014 at 23:21:51, Matthias Meulien (orontee@gmail.com) wrote:

When subword (resp. superword) minor mode is enabled, a comma  
(resp. a superscript two) is displayed in the mode line. I found  
those two characters difficult to see and meaning less.  

I understand that there's not much space in the mode line but  
other minor modes are much verbose (eg. MML, Abbrev, Fill, Narrow,  
Outl, etc). Why subword and superword modes have this special  
treatment?  

I suggest to use Subw and Supw for the user to have a chance to  
link the mode line string to the full minor mode.  


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Matthias