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Re: Keywords supported by define-minor-mode
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Keywords supported by define-minor-mode |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Mar 2016 18:38:38 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> I needed today to understand what exactly this does:
> (define-minor-mode midnight-mode
> "Non-nil means run `midnight-hook' at midnight."
> :global t
> :initialize #'custom-initialize-default
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I was astonished to find out that this keyword is not documented
> anywhere, neither in the doc string of define-minor-mode, nor in the
> manual. The full list of define-minor-mode's keywords that aren't
> documented is this:
> :extra-args
> :set
> :initialize
> :type
The latter three are covered by this part of the docstring:
(other keywords are passed to ‘defcustom’ if
the minor mode is global)
-- Stefan