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Re: minor modes
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: minor modes |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:17:21 -0400 |
> I don't understand `minor-mode-list'. It clearly isn't `List of all
> minor mode functions.' per the doc string, since it's apparently only
> updated by the deprecated `add-minor-mode'
>
> define-minor-mode generates calls to add-minor-mode. That's why I put
> the code into add-minor-mode. However, autoloaded minor modes
> are not usually included in the list; update-file-autoloads does not put
> anything into loaddefs.el that would put the function name onto
> minor-mode-list. The function name has an autoload definition
> but it won't be on minor-mode-list until the real definition is loaded.
>
> I think that is a bug, and I think think the right fix would
> be to put something in loaddefs.el to add these names to the list.
How about replacing the minor-mode-list variable with a minor-modes
custom group and have cus-dep.el deal with it ?
Stefan