Re: minor modes

[Richard Stallman]

    I don't understand `minor-mode-list'.  It clearly isn't `List of all
    minor mode functions.' per the doc string, since it's apparently only
    updated by the deprecated `add-minor-mode'

define-minor-mode generates calls to add-minor-mode.  That's why I put
the code into add-minor-mode.  However, autoloaded minor modes
are not usually included in the list; update-file-autoloads does not put
anything into loaddefs.el that would put the function name onto
minor-mode-list.  The function name has an autoload definition
but it won't be on minor-mode-list until the real definition is loaded.

I think that is a bug, and I think think the right fix would
be to put something in loaddefs.el to add these names to the list.