Re: [GNU ELPA] New package: caffeinate-mode

On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 4:59 PM Lucas Christian <[email protected]> wrote:

> Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Here is a skeetch of what I had in mind when it came to merging the two
> > minor modes.
>
> [...]
>
> > It also simplifies the code, since you don't need to maintain the
> > invariant that the major modes are mutually exclusive.  It is a
> > sub-minor-mode so to speak.
>
> I made a few changes to this and pushed a new version of the library:
>
> https://github.com/lucasec/emacs-caffeinate/commit/d19c1bc9031ebeffd243177eb4f1efd84fc14fd7
>
> The net change was only about -11 lines, but I do think it reads a bit
> cleaner. Will run this for a few days while I continue to deal with the
> copyright assignment paperwork and see if it bothers me.
>
> One detail I'd like feedback on: Currently I have both a customize
> option caffeinate-block-display-sleep and also the function
> caffeinate-toggle-display.
>
> The customize variable defines the default behavior when caffeinate-mode
> is enabled (though if you change the value through the customize
> interface, it also applies to any active usage of
> caffeinate-mode). caffeinate-toggle-display allows changeing the
> behavior temporarily while caffeinate-mode is active, and the change
> resets if you toggle caffeinate-mode off and on again.
>
> This seems to match the behavior of other "submodes",
> e.g. c-hungry-delete mode, which reset when you change the major mode.
>

You could call caffeinate-block-display-sleep
caffeinate-block-display-sleep-default.
And rather than pollute (not being impolite) the main menu with
caffeinate-mode menu, consider doing what project.el does with its menu
accessible via its mode-line lighter.  See project-mode-line-map and the
function project-mode-line-format.