Re: .emacs - minor mode behavior

[Stefan Monnier]

> (setq column-number-mode t)

> I understand that this line is setting 'column-number-mode to t
> (true).  I also understand that this variable is created along with
> the column-number-mode function by the define-minor-mode macro in
> simple.el.

And it just happens to work because the definition of the minor mode is
sufficiently simple.  Better to use

  (column-number-mode 1)


-- Stefan