GNU bug report logs - #22189
25.1.50; [PATCH] Add `global-goto-address-mode' and `global-goto-address-prog-mode'

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Message #14 received at 22189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22189: 25.1.50; [PATCH] Add `global-goto-address-mode' and
 `global-goto-address-prog-mode'
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 10:59:52 +0200

> From: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 22189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 12:46:32 +0530
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com>
> >> Cc: 22189 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:20:42 +0530
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> >> From: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com>
> >> >> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:45:19 +0530
> >> >> 
> >> >> >From 137e8b559e0e8aaf9f82120ec83c86e377684e94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> >> From: Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju <at> gmail.com>
> >> >> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:41:23 +0530
> >> >> Subject: [PATCH] Add `global-goto-address-mode' and
> >> >>  `global-goto-address-prog-mode'
> >> >
> >> > Any rationale for adding these?
> >> 
> >> Any rationale for NOT adding these?
> >
> > Yes: bloat.
> 
> No: Useful.

Please elaborate.

I'm serious: we don't have any rule that says each minor mode should
have a corresponding globalized minor mode.  Users can trivially do in
their ~/.emacs what you do in your patch, so we should have some
rationale for having such a global mode as part of Emacs.  Please show
such a rationale.

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