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

[Lennart Borgman]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     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.
>
> The easiest way to do this would be to add a call
> to define-global-minor-mode for each call to define-minor-mode.
> The arguments are not the same.
>
> But I am not convinced every mode needs a global variant.
>   

To me it seems more plausible that a global minor mode needs a buffer 
local variant.