Re: Differentiate minor mode and global minor mode

[Joost Kremers]

On Thu, Apr 16 2020, Štěpán Němec wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:13:40 +0200
> Joost Kremers wrote:
> > I was wondering if there's a proper way to determine if a minor 
> > mode
> > is being turned on locally or globally?
[...]
> Same as with any other minor mode, calling 
> `global-writeroom-mode' will
> also set the same-named variable to t, so you can just check for 
> that.

But `global-writeroom-mode` would be t even if the user runs `M-x 
writeroom-mode` (e.g., in a buffer where `global-writeroom-mode` 
does not activate `writeroom-mode` by default). Though that's 
probably not a common use-case.

Thanks, I'll need to think about the best way to deal with this.

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Joost Kremers
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