From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Enabling/disabling minor modes based on major mode Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:13:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298434460 10396 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2011 04:14:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:14:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 23 05:14:16 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ps67D-0003jt-0q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:14:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59771 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ps67C-0004W5-H7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:14:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50429 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ps66q-0004VZ-V9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:13:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ps66q-0006iN-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:13:52 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38452) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ps66p-0006i1-Py for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:13:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ps66m-0003XV-Fn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:13:48 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:13:48 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:13:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79372 Archived-At: On 2/22/11 6:40 AM, Gary wrote: > Is there a nice, consistent, way to do this? > > From reading around I found > ,---- > | (add-hook 'term-mode-hook '(lambda() (set (make-local-variable > | 'global-hl-line-mode) 0))) > `---- > but that's clearly specific to global-hl-line-mode. > > Or is it? Could I do the same with, say, yas/minor-mode for the > yasnippet modes? Is > ,---- > | (set (make-local-variable ') 0) > `---- > guaranteed to work for all minor modes? No: Some minor modes can only be enabled/disabled by calling the mode's function with a positive/negative argument -- the mode's variable is just a read-only indicator of whether it is enabled or disabled. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA