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Re: Keywords supported by define-minor-mode


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Keywords supported by define-minor-mode
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:50:08 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> >   :extra-args
>> >   :set
>> >   :initialize
>> >   :type
>> 
>> The latter three are covered by this part of the docstring:
>> 
>> (other keywords are passed to ‘defcustom’ if
>> the minor mode is global)

> Yes, but defcustom's documentation is monstrously large, and doesn't
> always make sense to someone who just wants to define a minor mode,
> easily.

Might be true.  But :set, :initialize, and :type are more important for
defcustom than for define-minor-mode, so it'd be more beneficial to
address the issue on defcustom's side than on define-minor-mode side.

> And it still leaves :extra-args.

Yes.


        Stefan



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