Re: ELPA: New package: nano-modeline

[Stefan Kangas]

"Nicolas P. Rougier (inria)" <nicolas.rougier@inria.fr> writes:

>> when loading the package? Also, wouldn't it make sense to
>> provide the
>> functionality in terms of a (global) minor mode, the user can
>> activate
>> or deactivate?
>
> It might be possible to make it a minor mode (with some extra
> work) but it seems counter-intuitive (to me) to have this as a
> minor-mode. But I've no strong opinion actually.

I think a global minor mode is the most natural and Emacs-y thing here.
We have many minor modes that effectively just active settings, such as
`show-paren-mode', `blink-cursor-mode', 'menu-bar-mode',
`visual-line-mode', etc.