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Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode? |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:11:00 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.92 (gnu/linux) |
>> I am trying to use define-global-minor-mode, see below. I have
>> customized the global mode to be t, but when I open new buffers the
>> minor mode is not set in them. Is this a bug in
>> define-global-minor-mode?
> Seems to be working fine. Your recipe is a little vague, but here is
> a simple example:
> 1. Evaluate the following in *scratch* buffer:
> (define-minor-mode foo-mode
> "Foo."
> nil
> " foo"
> :group 'foo)
> (define-global-minor-mode html-site-global-mode foo-mode
> (lambda () (foo-mode 1))
> :group 'foo)
> 2. M-x customize-option RET foo RET
> 3. Click on "Toggle" (global-foo-mode is turned on)
> 4. Click on "Set for Current Session"
> 5. C-x C-f asdf RET (open a new file)
> 6. Observe the presence of the " foo" lighter in the modeline.
> There is one subtlety, which is that if you save the custom option for
> future sessions, it won't activate foo-mode in future sessions unless
> the above code defining foo-mode and global-foo-mode is already
> loaded. But I don't think that's necessary a bug; it's a flaw but not
> one that's easily avoidable.
Isn't it the case that it works if the minor mode function corresponding to
the variable is autoloaded? Otherwise, IIRC you need to add a :require
to the definition of the minor mode.
Stefan
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Johan Bockgård, 2007/01/02
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Chong Yidong, 2007/01/20
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/21
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/22
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/22
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Richard Stallman, 2007/01/23
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/23
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/23
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/23
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/24
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/24
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/01/25
- Re: How global is a define-global-minor-mode mode?, Stefan Monnier, 2007/01/25