Re: Minor modes and file names

[steve-humphreys]

Have tried to use it, but have encountered difficulties

(add-to-list
   'load-path "~/Genadm/build/gungadin-1.0/elisp/crucible")
(require 'crucible-mode crucible-mode-prot-2021-01-28-utc0656)
(add-hook 'texinfo-mode-hook 'crucible-mode)

> Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 at 4:15 AM
> From: "Robert Pluim" <rpluim@gmail.com>
> To: steve-humphreys@gmx.com
> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Minor modes and file names
>
> >>>>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 16:57:11 +0100, steve-humphreys@gmx.com said:
>
>     steve-humphreys> I have made a minor made for texinfo and noticed that 
> the minor mode
>     steve-humphreys> does not take effect unless tho file name matches the 
> minor mode name.
>
>     steve-humphreys> For instance, changing the name of the file to 
> "crucible-mode-2021-01-28.el"
>     steve-humphreys> the minor mode fails to load.
>
>     steve-humphreys> ----- crucible-mode.el -----
>     steve-humphreys> (define-minor-mode crucible-mode ...)
>     steve-humphreys> (provide 'crucible-mode)
>
>     steve-humphreys> ----- gtexinfo.el -----
>     steve-humphreys> (add-to-list
>     steve-humphreys>    'load-path 
> "~/Genadm/build/gungadin-1.0/elisp/crucible")
>     steve-humphreys> (require 'crucible-mode)
>     steve-humphreys> (add-hook 'texinfo-mode-hook 'crucible-mode)
>
> This is expected and documented:
>
>     (require FEATURE &optional FILENAME NOERROR)
>
>       Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 15.
>
>     If feature FEATURE is not loaded, load it from FILENAME.
>     If FEATURE is not a member of the list `features', then the feature is
>     not loaded; so load the file FILENAME.
>
>     If FILENAME is omitted, the printname of FEATURE is used as the file
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>     name, and `load' will try to load this name appended with the suffix
>     `.elc', `.el'
>
>