bug#52007: [External] : Re: bug#52007: 26.3; Doc of `define-globalized-minor-mode' and global(ized) minor modes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "52007@debbugs.gnu.org" <52007@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 17:22:30 +0000
> 
> > >   Toggle Foo mode in all buffers.
> > >
> > > It doesn't do that at all.  Instead, it toggles
> > > `global-foo-mode'.
> > 
> > No, it turns ON both foo-mode and global-foo-mode.
> 
> You missed the point of the bug report.
> Toggling the global mode turns them both on (or off,
> depending on the current value of `global-foo-mode')
> in all buffers, yes.

No.  It turns on foo-mode in all buffers, and it turns on
global-foo-mode globally -- it is nonsense to talk about "global mode
in a buffer", because global modes are, well, global.

> That's not what it means to toggle `foo-mode'
> everywhere.  Doing that would flip the value that
> `foo-mode' (non-global mode) has in each buffer.

And it does.

> Glad this will be fixed in Emacs 28.  (And no, I
> wasn't "looking at an old Emacs".  I reported on
> the latest Emacs release, Emacs 27.2.)

Your report said 26.3.