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bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized)
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Drew Adams |
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bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes |
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Sat, 20 Nov 2021 23:17:49 +0000 |
It's even worse than I thought.
The first line of the doc string of the globalized
version of minor mode `foo-mode' (`global-foo-mode')
says that it toggles `foo-mode' everywhere:
Toggle Foo mode in all buffers.
It doesn't do that at all. Instead, it toggles
`global-foo-mode'. BIG difference. If `foo-mode'
is ON in buffer B1 and OFF in buffer B2, then
toggling `foo-mode' everywhere would result in
`foo-mode' being OFF in B1 and ON in B2.
What instead happens is that if the global mode was
OFF then `global-foo-mode' is turned ON, which turns
ON `foo-mode' in all buffers. And if the global
mode was ON then it is turned OFF, which turns OFF
`foo-mode' in all buffers.
We don't seem to have a command that toggles a minor
mode in all buffers, that is, flips its state ON/OFF.
- bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes, Drew Adams, 2021/11/20
- bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/21
- bug#52007: [External] : Re: bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes, Drew Adams, 2021/11/21
- bug#52007: [External] : Re: bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/21
- bug#52007: [External] : Re: bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes, Drew Adams, 2021/11/21
- bug#52007: [External] : Re: bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/21
- bug#52007: [External] : Re: bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes, Drew Adams, 2021/11/21
bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/21