It seems that much of Emacs follows a convention for naming global minor
modes vs buffer local minor modes that hi-lock-mode does not follow.
The convention is for buffer local minor modes to be named
minor-mode-name and for global minor modes to be named
global-minor-mode-name.
I realize tha
> It seems that much of Emacs follows a convention for naming global
> minor modes vs buffer local minor modes that hi-lock-mode does not
> follow. The convention is for buffer local minor modes to be named
> minor-mode-name and for global minor modes to be named
> global-minor-mode-name.
>
> I rea
Juri Linkov wrote:
This bit me because I don't like having the H for hi-lock-mode
displayed in the mode line, so I added
(setf (second (assoc 'hi-lock-mode minor-mode-alist)) nil)
to my init file. This just broke.
I don't like having the H displayed in the mode line for no reason too.
I hav
>> I have a local fix that displays Hi in the mode line only when the
>> list of regexps to highlight is not empty in the current buffer.
>> This means it is displayed only when hi-lock has something to highlight.
>> Do you think it would be useful to use this logic by default in
>> hi-lock.el?
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