Re: turning on minor modes from hooks

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Stephen has long advocated that non-interactive invocation of mode
>> commands should always turn on the mode instead of toggling.
> Isn't magically changing behavior between the interactive and
> non-interactive cases a Bad Thing?

There's no magic involved: if you call (call-interactively 'foo-mode)
it will toggle just fine, but you have no reason to presume that this is
equivalent to (foo-mode).  And indeed it's not.


        Stefan