Re: [AUCTeX] Turn compilation-in-progress into a proper minor mode?

[David Kastrup]

Oleh <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Current behavior is out of date:
>
> (length minor-mode-alist)
> => 68
> (count-if-not (lambda (x) (functionp (car x)))
>               minor-mode-alist)
> => 7
>
> And compilation-in-progress is one of them.  The point is that if it's
> not a function, it's impossible to turn it off with M-x or with mouse
> from the modeline.  Only with (setq compilation-in-progress).
>
> I could write up a patch to make the change.  I just wanted to ask if
> there's a reason that things are this way and the change can't be
> made.

compilation-in-progress is defined in Emacs (in
lisp/progmodes/compile.el), so AUCTeX has no business messing with its
definition.  Any changes need to be contributed to Emacs upstream.

-- 
David Kastrup