Re: /etc/TODO: define-minor-mode & minor-mode-list

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> Also is this todo considered todone?
>> Largely, yes.  I did this during the Emacs-24 development (which lead to
>> the addition of the `:variable' argument).  My methodology to find
>> potential minor modes was to grep for something like "defun.*-mode
>> ([^)]" since traditionally minor modes take an argument, whereas major
>> modes don't.  There are a few cases I found which I haven't converted,
>> usually because the conversion was less straightforward so I left it
>> for later.  These are: orgstruct++-mode, tcl-auto-fill-mode,
>> vhdl-hs-minor-mode, speedbar-frame-mode, reftex-isearch-minor-mode,
>> type-break-mode.
>> There are probably other candidates, of course.
> I searched for more but I've probably unearthed more false positives
> than anything else. I'll hopefully have at least one patch by the end of
> the week.

Just to give you an idea of the kinds of problems you might have to deal
with: changing orgstruct++-mode to use define-minor-mode should be
fairly easy with the new `:variable' argument, but I suspect that the
Org guys won't be happy with this since they want their code to work
under Emacs-23 as well.


        Stefan