Re: Turning electric-indent-mode off, for a specific buffer

[Po Lu]

goncholden <goncholden@protonmail.com> writes:

> Then customizing electric-indent-mode does not customize the variable
> but the minor-mode?

Yes.

> If I remember correctly, when defining a minor-mode, a variable is
> also created automatically.  From your discussion, it seems that there
> would also exist a function with the same name.

Both a command that serves to switch a minor mode on or off and a
variable is created when defining a minor mode.

They share the same name, because Emacs Lisp, being a Lisp-2, has
separate cells for functions and variables.

All of this information is trivially available in the doc string of the
function `electric-indent-mode', that of the macro `define-minor-mode',
and the Emacs Lisp reference manual.  I suggest you read them.