Re: Adding functionality to a minor mode

[goncholden]

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On Saturday, February 5th, 2022 at 10:00 AM, goncholden via Users list for the 
GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> I have made a minor-mode with some defvar and defun. Have added some 
> functionality
>
> for comments, and put everything in the following function definition.
>
> (defun rich-annotation-tools ()
> "Aggregates annotation tools for comments."
> (rich-annotation-font-weight)
> (rich-annotation-low-contrast)
> (rich-annotation-keytrigger))
>
> I would expect to add "(rich-annotation-tools)" in define-minor-mode. Would I 
> introduce it
> within the "(when rich-minor-mode" part?
>
> ;;;###autoload
> (define-minor-mode rich-minor-mode
> "This is the description."
> :lighter "rich" ; indicator in mode-line
> (font-lock-remove-keywords nil rich-font-lock)
>
> (when rich-minor-mode
> (font-lock-add-keywords nil rich-font-lock 'append)
> (set (make-local-variable 'jit-lock-contextually) t) )
> (rich-annotation-tools)
>
> (when font-lock-mode
> (if (fboundp 'font-lock-flush)
> (font-lock-flush)
> (with-no-warnings (font-lock-fontify-buffer)) )) )

What are the standard techniques for defining a minor mode (e.g. should only 
only use "(when rich-minor-mode"),
and for enabling, disabling minor-mode functionality.