patch to hilight-chg not in emacs 22.1

[Richard Sharman]

Hello.

On 23 Oct 2006, Richard Stallman wrote

> Is there an important reason to overload M-x highlight-changes-mode
> for toggling between active and passive mode?  Would it be
> inconvenient to make that a separate command, so that M-x
> highlight-changes-mode could follow the conventions for minor modes?

After a while I made some changes to do that,  and RMS accepted them   
on 14 Dec.

I only just realized that they didn't make it to the official 22.1  
release.

One reason might be that I had coupled with it a change to easy- 
mmode.el because I was loathe to have disabling global highlight  
changes mode disable highlight changes in existing buffers. When  
testing the old patch I found there was problems with it when it when  
it was byte-compiled.

So,  I have simplified the change to hilit-chg.el and have removed  
the part that required the change to easy-mmode.  (I think what I was  
previously doing was overkill anyway.)

I will attach here this new patch (against 22.1).

(I have an archive of the mail messages on the thread if this is of  
interest, but it deals a lot with the change that I have removed.)

Note:  I have not addressed the problem mentioned by Stefan and  
Martin,  since it seems as if they have already handled it.

Richard

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