Subject: easy-mmode.el -- enhance define-minor-mode to define turn-on-* and turn-off-* functions
From: Jari Aalto <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:42:03 +0300
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Package: emacs
Version: 23.2+1-7
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice if the define-minor-mode would also define functions:

    turn-on-*
    turn-off-*

An example:

    ;; lisp/hl-line.el
    (define-minor-mode hl-line-mode ...)

That would make it possible to add to ~/.emacs:

    (add-hook 'nroff-mode-hook 'turn-on-hl-line-mode)

    ;; Or later:
    (remove-hook 'nroff-mode-hook 'turn-on-hl-line-mode)

This would be much more cleaner than what is needed now:

    (add-hook 'nroff-mode-hook '(lambda () (turn-on-hl-line-mode 1)))
    ...
    ;; the hook removal command is as messy

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Architecture: amd64
Kernel: Linux picasso 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 03:40:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8

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