Re: minor modes

[Stefan Monnier]

>     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.

How about replacing the minor-mode-list variable with a minor-modes
custom group and have cus-dep.el deal with it ?


        Stefan