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bug#6276: Could indent-tabs-mode etc be made minor modes?
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#6276: Could indent-tabs-mode etc be made minor modes? |
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Sun, 18 Jul 2021 15:22:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I just saw on EmacsWiki a list of minor modes that do not have a
>> command for turning them on, for example indent-tabs-mode. This is
>> instead a defcustom.
>
>> Could this be turned into a global minor mode, for example with
>> something like
>
> Sounds OK to me.
>
>> (define-minor-mode indent-tabs-mode
>> "test"
>> :global t
>> :variable indent-tabs-mode)
>
> I'd rather keep the :variable uses to a minimum.
> In the case of indent-tabs-mode, maybe the better course of action is to
> move `indent-to' and `indent-tabs-mode' from C to Lisp.
I see the charm of moving `indent-to' to Lisp, but it's a function that
used a lot and should remain as quick as possible, I think.
So I just went ahead with Lennart's suggestion to add the trivial minor
mode instead.
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