Stefan Monnier wrote: > Otherwise, if we're going to be rigid about this guideline (perhaps there > are good reasons to do that, even in this case), then maybe we should just > get rid of :init-value and have the initial value always be nil - that is, > make users of a library turn on the minor mode explicitly. That would not be > my preference, but it would at least avoid confusion.
That might be a good alternative. No, because sometimes a standard value of t is appropriate and the :init-value _has_ to reflect the standard value, or Custom would consider the variable to be "rogue". What if I just document in the Elisp manual what the acceptable situations are for a non-nil :init-value and how it needs to be handled: pre-load the file containing the define-minor-mode before startup.el and call the minor mode function (or custom-reevaluate-setting if the minor mode only has to be enabled conditionally) in startup.el for minor modes included with the Emacs distribution that affect Emacs "globally" and put (if foo-mode (foo-mode 1)) at the end of the file containing the define-minor-mode for minor modes that only affect features defined in that file (and that are in files that are not pre-loaded). Sincerely, Luc. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
