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Re: Is that change a good idea?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Is that change a good idea? |
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Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:07:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>>> > * help.el (describe-mode): Allow a :minor-mode-function property to
>>> > specify a different minor mode toggle function than the variable.
>>> > * simple.el (auto-fill-function):
>>> > * subr.el (add-minor-mode): Use it.
>>>
>>> > I have my doubts that the resulting flexibility is really in the best
>>> > interest of the users...
>>>
>>> 100% agreement.
>>> It's only meant to clean up the code,
>
>> Wouldn't it be far more cleaner to convert old minor-modes which would
>> need this hack to proper minor-modes following standard semantics?
>
> You do realize that there are packages over which we have no
> control, right?
Well, then we won't need to worry about us not being able to use
define-minor-mode for them.
> make sure they're kept in sync. Maybe we could do (defvaralias
> 'auto-fill-function 'auto-fill-mode) and then slowly change modes to
> replace (if auto-fill-function (funcall auto-fill-function)) with
> (if auto-fill-mode (funcall normal-auto-fill-function)).
That won't work if modes set auto-fill-function themselves to a
function...
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum