From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Keywords supported by define-minor-mode Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:50:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83d1qgym36.fsf@gnu.org> <83r3euy6ci.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459180231 28083 80.91.229.3 (28 Mar 2016 15:50:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 17:50:23 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1akZQt-0005hD-1G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:50:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41413 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akZQr-0002Yu-Sp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:50:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52397) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akZQo-0002Yj-K7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akZQi-0007Ka-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:34603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1akZQi-0007KW-Mp; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:50:12 -0400 Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.7/8.14.1) with ESMTP id u2SFo8YO008344; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 76FECAE071; Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:50:08 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <83r3euy6ci.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:23:09 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV5625=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.3.0.9418 : core <5625> : inlines <4594> : streams <1610264> : uri <2174976> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.22 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202322 Archived-At: >> > :extra-args >> > :set >> > :initialize >> > :type >>=20 >> The latter three are covered by this part of the docstring: >>=20 >> (other keywords are passed to =E2=80=98defcustom=E2=80=99 if >> the minor mode is global) > Yes, but defcustom's documentation is monstrously large, and doesn't > always make sense to someone who just wants to define a minor mode, > easily. Might be true. But :set, :initialize, and :type are more important for defcustom than for define-minor-mode, so it'd be more beneficial to address the issue on defcustom's side than on define-minor-mode side. > And it still leaves :extra-args. Yes. Stefan