GNU bug report logs - #4148
mode: for a minor mode should turn on, not toggle the mode

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>

Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:15:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann <at> ics.uci.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: mode: for a minor mode should turn on, not toggle the mode
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:05:26 -0700 (PDT)

A well known long standing problem:
using 
mode: SOME_MINOR_MODE

in a local variable section (or in .dir-locals.el) toggles the minor
mode, it should turn it on.

So if the user sets a hook to turn on the minor mode in her emacs, when
using a file that sets the same minor mode, the minor mode ends up being
disable.
This bug report was last modified 15 years and 280 days ago.

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