From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Remove toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:40:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v94pdstmq5.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9r6hvzolf.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2007 19:53:48 +0100")
Hi,
I didn't see any reply to the suggestion below yet.
On Sun, Dec 09 2007, Reiner Steib wrote:
> after the discussion cited below, this TODO item had been added:
>
> ** Remove the default toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp
> rather than interactively. This a trivial one-liner in easy-mode.el.
>
> Could this code be installed now?
>
> ,----[ <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/54509/focus=54665> ]
> | From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> | Subject: Re: turn-on-*-mode
> | Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> | Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 17:24:49 -0400
> | Message-ID: <jwvfyj8qrgq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> | To: rms@gnu.org
> |
> | > Stefan had a (what I thought was) clever suggestion to deal with this:
> | > Make "...-mode" functions toggle only when used interactively (just as
> | > they only print a message when used interactively), and otherwise have
> | > them just enable the state unconditionally.
> |
> | > This is an interesting idea.
> |
> | > It would mean that there is no longer an argument you could use,
> | > noninteractively, to toggle the mode.
> |
> | Actually there is: the symbol `toggle' does it.
> |
> | > Another drawback is simply that the interactive and noninteractive
> | > behavior of these commands will be different.
> |
> | Not really. It just means that the argument passed to the minor mode
> | function in the absence of a prefix-arg won't be nil but will be `toggle'.
> | As a matter of fact, this is already the case.
> |
> | The current code already emits a warning when the minor mode is called with
> | a nil argument and the minor mode is already enabled (i.e. when a nil
> | argument is used to toggle the mode off).
> `----
Bye, Reiner.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-05 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-09 18:53 Remove toggling behavior of minor modes when called from elisp Reiner Steib
2008-01-05 13:40 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2008-01-06 8:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 8:53 ` Reiner Steib
2008-01-06 18:09 ` Richard Stallman
2008-01-06 18:21 ` Reiner Steib
2008-01-06 20:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-01-07 11:31 ` Richard Stallman
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