Re: Automatic minor modes?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 16:06:01 -0400 Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden> wrote: 

CP> On 2018-07-22 15:01, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Even better would be to move the "unmask-at-point" feature out of
>>> prettify-symbols-mode, so that more complex hiding could use it too
>>> (prettify-symbols-mode is fairly strict in its inputs).
>> 
>> How 'bout adding it to `reveal-mode`?

CP> Maybe ? But bonus points if each type of revealing can be turned on or off
CP> separately; maybe something like buffer-invisibility-spec? (I think 
currently
CP> you can disable revealing for some overlays, but not the other way around?
CP> basically I'd like my minor mode to be able to turn on revealing, but only 
for
CP> the overlays it created)

Any ideas here? This is still a feature worth having, I think. But
Clément and Stefan's comments have confused me so I don't know if it's
waiting for something and if there's a "right" way to do it?

Ted