Subject: bug#30978: 25.3; Suggestion: define-minor-mode should define mode-lighter variable

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:31:27 +0200

Howard Melman <[email-masked]> writes:

> I agree that packages like delight, dim and diminish (and I
> just learned about blackout) mostly exist because there
> wasn't a "trivial" or "easy and regular" way to do this and
> don't see how they're "more complete" than the proposal.. 

It's already pretty easy to just alter the lighters -- just say:

(setcar (cdr (assoc 'foo-mode minor-mode-alist)) "whatever")

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