Reiner Steib writes: Of course; this use is isomorphic to the one in file variables, which is just a form of local hook, after all. So with a galaxy of minor modes we add `turn-on-foo' and even more rarely `turn-off-foo' commands only when users complain about a particular one, is that it? This is an ugly hack. I can think of many generic ways to deal with it. For example, add-hook (or run-hooks!) could do (when (and (symbolp function) (not (functionp function))) (cond ((string-match "^turn-on-" (symbol-name function)) (setq function `(lambda (bool) (,function 1)))) ((string-match "^turn-off-" (symbol-name function)) (setq function `(lambda (bool) (,function 0)))))) before mutating (or running) the hook. Note that if you're dealing with an existing `turn-on-foo' this will DTRT. If that's too much magic for one's taste, then we could update define-minor-mode to always generate the "turn-on/off-" forms. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta