GNU bug report logs - #2355
23.0.60; Enabling minor-mode disables major mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:55:06 UTC

Severity: minor

Fixed in version 24.1

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: bojohan+news <at> dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#2355: 23.0.60; Enabling minor-mode disables major mode
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:09:25 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> My 57.3.4.1 here says:
>
>       You can use the `mode' "variable" to set minor modes as well as the
>    major modes; in fact, you can use it more than once, first to set the
>    major mode and then to set minor modes which are specific to particular
>    buffers.  But most minor modes should not be specified in the file at
>    all, because they represent user preferences.

Indeed.  But then there's the issue that minor modes are toggled, not set.
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