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bug#49971: 28.0.50; indent-tabs-mode not working globally
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#49971: 28.0.50; indent-tabs-mode not working globally |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:30:34 +0300 |
> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: Gabriel <gabriel376@hotmail.com>, 49971@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 14:08:19 +0200
>
> On Aug 10 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> (define-minor-mode indent-tabs-mode
> >> "Toggle whether indentation can insert TAB characters."
> >> :global t :group 'indent :variable indent-tabs-mode)
> >
> > That's the mode, but in your recipe you are looking at the variable,
> > not the mode. And the documentation of the variable clearly says:
> >
> > Automatically becomes buffer-local when set.
>
> That's because it's explicitly made that way (bindings.el:799) despite
> the :global declaration (which is about the _variable_ not the mode).
Apologies. But then I don't understand why we'd want this to be a
global minor mode. Lars?