Re: global minor modes that can be overridden locally? [was: highlight-changes-mode]

[Lennart Borgman]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     Why not define a new sub foo-mode-locally to toggle it in current buffer 
>     when it is a global minor mode?
>
> Two different commands is the way we do it now.
> In the current scheme; foo-mode is the local toggle
> and global-foo-mode is the global toggle.
>
> I think the current scheme is better than making foo-mode the global
> command.
>   

The naming scheme does not matter to me very much. What I tried to argue 
about was that when we define a new global minor mode with 
define-minor-mode it should define functions for us for toggling both 
locally and globally.