Subject: Re: bug#36886: 26.2; (global-eldoc-mode -1) should disable eldoc completely

From: "Basil L. Contovounesios" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 14:44:33 +0300

Sanel Zukan <[email-masked]> writes:

> Here is how to reproduce it with emacs -Q:
>
> 1. $ emacs -Q
> 2. M-x (global-eldoc-mode -1)
> ;; by not it should be disabled in mode-line, but if you do this:
> 3. M-: (fboundp '    <-- after entering apostrophe, eldoc will show
> 'fboundp' protoype in mode-line.
>
> Also after (global-eldoc-mode -1), I don't see anwyhere in eldoc.el code
> that eldoc-message-function is changed.

AFAICT eldoc-message-function doesn't need to be changed because it
isn't called when eldoc-mode is disabled.

The reason it ends up being called in your example is that M-:
explicitly and unconditionally enables eldoc-mode in the minibuffer.

Dmitry suggested making this behaviour conditional as a workaround, but
ultimately it would probably be best to try fixing bug#27202 without
messing with eldoc-mode in read--expression.

Thanks,

-- 
Basil