Re: Modifying mode-name

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     Could you please identify that code more precisely?  The only related
>     code I could find was in the function mode-line-mode-name.  But that
>     function used copy-sequence to copy the text stored in mode-name, and
>     then returned that copy.  It did not change mode-name itself.  If you
>     did mean that function, what am I missing?
> 
> The old code did change mode-name.

Ah, I think I understand why I didn't see that: you were talking about 
the version on the CVS head, while I was looking at Emacs 21.1 and the 
branch.  The latter versions copy mode-name unconditionally.