Subject: Re: bug#8416: easy-mmode.el -- enhance define-minor-mode to define turn-on-* and turn-off-* functions

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:46:03 -0400

Jari Aalto wrote:

> It would be nice if the define-minor-mode would also define functions:
>
>     turn-on-*
>     turn-off-*

You've proposed this kind of thing before, and it has been rejected.

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?msg=9;bug=4288

  "...I don't like the turn-on-* and turn-off-* functions: we have
  already the *-mode functions which should be plenty."

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7709#8

  "There is no need for it (and neither is there a need for
  turn-on-eldoc-mode). There is M-x eldoc-mode."