Re: define-minor-mode question

[Tim Cross]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:15:39 +1000
>> 
>> 
>> (define-minor-mode corgi-stateline-mode
>>   "Toggle corgi-stateline-mode."
>>   :init-value nil
>>   :global t
>>   (if (default-value 'corgi-stateline-mode)
>>       (corgi-stateline/turn-on)
>>     (corgi-stateline/turn-off)))
>>     
>> 
>> When I do M-x corgi-stateline-mode, I see two messages in the echo area.
>> The first tells me the mode is being enabled/disabled. The second says 
>> 
>> You can run the command 'corgi-stateline-mode' with M-x corg-m RET
>> 
>> This is the problematic message. First, I don't want that message, but
>> more importantly, it is wrong. You cannot run the command with M-x
>> corg-m.
>
> Why not?  What happens if you try?
>

When I tired it, it didn't work. The command was not found. I also tried
C-h f, which also failed. 

After your reply, I dug a little deeper and now suspect this is an issue
with ivy. I don't normally use ivy, but the project I'm contributing to
does, so I was using their default setup. If I define the mode in a
clean (emacs -q) environment, the shorthand version works. I'm guesssing
that whatever Emacs uses to generate the shorthand name isn't being
picked up by ivy. I don't know if this is an ivy limitation or an ivy
configuration error at this point.

I initially thought the failure was due to something I had missed in
defining the minor mode.