bug#5153: 23.1.50; define-global-minor-mode and a new fundamental buffer

Kenichi Handa <[email protected]> Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:29:17 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> writes:

> > It seems that the global minor mode defined by
> > define-global-minor-mode doesn't work in a newly created
> > buffer of fundamental mode.

> > Isn't this a bug?

> I think it's not, tho it's obviously a misfeature.  I think the best
> answer is to say that a buffer that is intended to be displayed to the
> user should call a major-mode function.  If there's no specific
> major-mode for it, it should call fundamental-mode.

Ok, I see.  I wrote that to the bug list of gettext/po-mode.el.

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Kenichi Handa
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