From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: 32643@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32643: 26; minor-mode variables
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 09:27:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <face0ecc-ed2d-1e1d-a89b-e188de8f7694@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6405ba72-f429-4bf8-a054-31f72b2902ea@default>
On 09.09.2018 16:12, Drew Adams wrote:
>> > Applying common sense, the obvious explanation is that auto-fill-mode
>> > controls only a single variable (i.e., `auto-fill-function'), and adding
>> > an extra `auto-fill-mode' which would then have to be kept in sync just
>> > to conform to some convention is not worth the trouble.
>>
>> We could arrange for Auto-Fill mode to be controlled by a variable
>> auto-fill-mode. Change the auto-fill code so that two variables
>> control it: (and auto-fill-mode auto-fill-function (funcall
>> auto-fill-function ...)). Then we could leave auto-fill-function set
>> up all the time, and enable/disable the mode by setting auto-fill-mode
>> as with most other minor modes.
>
> I do hope that someone does something, perhaps along those lines,
> to provide an `auto-fill-mode' variable.
>
> As I said, I'm not familiar with the `:variable' stuff. I'd think that using
> `:set' would be sufficient, to ensure that both variables are updated
> correctly whenever `auto-fill-mode' is set. But perhaps that would
> not suffice to ensure that whenever `auto-fill-function' is set.
>
> (A guess is that using `:variable' provides a simpler or more elegant
> way of doing what could be done using `:set'.)
>
>
>
Maybe that can be done by defmacro define-minor-mode already - no need
for hand-writing?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-10 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-05 15:13 bug#32643: 26; minor-mode variables Drew Adams
2018-09-06 5:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-06 14:18 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-06 14:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 2:07 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-08 2:25 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-09 20:33 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-09 22:09 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-12 0:51 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-12 1:46 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-13 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-13 13:28 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-09-09 6:05 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-09 14:12 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-10 7:27 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
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2018-09-06 14:51 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-06 18:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-07 0:10 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-08 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-08 13:58 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-08 17:53 ` Andreas Röhler
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2018-09-07 15:07 ` Drew Adams
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