Stefan Monnier wrote: The comment about not setting the variable locally should not be added if the mode is not declared to be global.
If the mode is not global, the comment is less explicit, but still says: Use the command `visible-mode' to change this variable. In the case of Visible mode, this is actually correct: just setting the variable does not work. Whether or not setting the variable works does not depend on whether the mode is global or local. The only difference is that for local modes, setting through Custom does not work. Maybe if the minor mode defined using `define-minor-mode', local or global, has an empty explicitly specified function definition, the docstring could explicitly say that setting the variable has the same effect as calling the function, except for some side stuff, like running the mode hooks. Examples include line-number-mode, column-number-mode, size-indication-mode and transient-mark-mode. I guess that there must be many others. There is the problem of reconciling stuff in `(emacs)Minor Modes' with the behavior of `define-minor-mode'. Part of that might be updating the node, but part of it might be correcting misfeatures of `define-minor-mode'. Sincerely, Luc. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
