Re: problem of define-minor-mode while bootstrapping

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     > The reason for this little piece of code is so as to call (foo-mode 1) 
> when
>     > people do (setq foo-mode t) in their .emacs and then load foo-mode.el.
>     > But people shouldn't use (setq foo-mode t), they should use (foo-mode 1)
>     > instead anyway.
>     > So I'd rather use that code less often rather than more often.
> 
>     CAn we just get rid of it?
> 
> I'd rather not do that.
> It would be an incompatible change, and I don't see
> enough reason for one.

The fact that you can't currently DTRT seems good enough.  I don't see
a serious problem with such a change since I, for one, wasn't aware
there was such code and the minor mode doc explicitly says that
setting the variable doesn't take effect.

It's also meant to be a requirement that just loading a library
doesn't change Emacs's state, particularly for the sake of Custom; I
think that's documented, but if not, it should be.