GNU bug report logs - #5294
23.1; unload-feature disable minor-mode

Previous Next

Full log

Message #11 received at 5294 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 5294 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5294: 23.1; unload-feature disable minor-mode
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:58:32 +1100

Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> I don't know whether, in general, you want to disable all effects of a
> mode after downloading it.

It seems unlikely a minor mode can do anything much good when its
functions have been unloaded.  Some "static" effects might be ok, but
anything active would presumably stick in an unchanging state or start
to error out, either a bit or badly.


> FOO-unload-hook is

... a flexible way for unrelated libraries, macros or bits of code to
undo things they know about, even different conditionalized parts of one
.el like in tramp-util.el.  A kind of inverse to eval-after-load,
difficult to arrange on a monolithic unload func.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.