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bug#10754: define-minor-mode and doc of derived mode


From: John Shahid
Subject: bug#10754: define-minor-mode and doc of derived mode
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 23:19:23 +0000
User-agent: mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> I think we can avoid it by looking for the presence of ARG in
> the docstring

I think this can work, but it doesn't feel very elegant or obvious from
the pov of the caller of `define-minor-mode'. What's wrong with adding
an extra keyword arg ?

> (or by simply always adding it, and then going through
> the various minor modes and remove the corresponding text from their
> docstrings).

I think this change needs to be backward compatible. There could be
other callers that aren't packaged with Emacs.





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