minor modes and easy-mmode-define-minor-mode

[Alex Schroeder]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.emacs as well.

"Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+comp.emacs/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu> 
writes:

> Actually, calling ... like that just toggles the mode,
> so it might in some rare circumstances end up turning it off
> rather than on.

> PS: I still have hope to convince Emacs developers that this
>     toggling behavior is a misfeature and should be changed.

Maybe more minor modes should be defined using
easy-mmode-define-minor-mode...  

(What follows is a feature request, therefore Cc:
bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org)

easy-mmode-define-minor-mode should automatically create
toggle-x-mode, turn-on-x-mode, and turn-off-x-mode functions...  At
the moment it just creates the x-mode function.  It does, however
create x-mode-on-hook and x-mode-off-hook, which is a nice idea.

Alex.
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