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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: .emacs - minor mode behavior
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:04:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsld8llhx.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1171403693.631853.279610@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com

> (setq column-number-mode t)

> I understand that this line is setting 'column-number-mode to t
> (true).  I also understand that this variable is created along with
> the column-number-mode function by the define-minor-mode macro in
> simple.el.

And it just happens to work because the definition of the minor mode is
sufficiently simple.  Better to use

  (column-number-mode 1)


-- Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-14 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-13 21:54 .emacs - minor mode behavior J K
2007-02-14  3:24 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-02-14 17:04 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-02-15 13:13 ` Robert Thorpe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-14 21:48 A Soare

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