Unable to diminish lighter in modeline for beginend-global-mode

[doolio]

Firstly, thank you for this great package. I would like to hide the lighter from the modeline. Yes, sadly I wish to "diminish" this great package and still have it continue its work. To that end I have the following use-package declaration in my configuration:

(use-package beginend
  :pin melpa
  :ensure t
  :init (beginend-global-mode)
  :diminish beginend-global-mode)

I've also tried the (diminish 'beginend-global-mode) form but it too does not work. Is there something missing from my beginend configuration setup?

[DamienCassou]

Hi @doolio,

thanks for your interest. I diminish most of the packages I use so no need to apologize :-). For beginend, there are several modes, each of them requiring "diminishion":

(use-package beginend
  :demand t
  :diminish (beginend-global-mode beginend-dired-mode beginend-prog-mode)
  :config
  (progn
    (beginend-global-mode)))

Add all the modes you don't want to see.

Enjoy beginend!

[DamienCassou]

I'm closing for now. Please reopen if this doesn't solve your problem.

[doolio]

Yes, this removes the lighter as I wanted.

I did not appreciate that it needed to be done for each supported mode. I presumed as the lighter was defined for the global minor mode it was sufficient to only diminish it so it would be diminished for all supported modes. Anyway, thanks again for your time and the quick response.

[DamienCassou]

doolio <notifications@github.com> writes:

I did not appreciate that it needed to be done for each supported mode. I presumed as the lighter was defined for the global minor mode it was sufficient to only diminish it so it would be diminished for all supported modes.

I agree this is weird. Do you have any suggestion?

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[doolio]

Do you have any suggestion?

Unfortunately, not at this time. I don't know Emacs Lisp myself and am in fact trying to slowly learn how to programme in general and so quite ignorant of programming to be in a position to provide a solution. I've kinda gone in the deep end and chose to learn how to use Emacs as part of that journey!

In any case, if I understand how minor modes work in general, your code provides the lighter for each supported mode individually and/or globally (which includes all the supported modes). Would it make sense to limit the global minor mode to only those modes supported which I guess would mean it would not be global in the strict sense of the definition and so perhaps a meaningless suggestion?

Because as it stands with the global minor mode enabled but not diminished the lighter appears twice for buffers with modes that are supported.

[oantolin]

If you want to diminish all beginend modes you can use this configuration:

(use-package beginend
  :ensure t
  :demand t
  :config
  (cl-loop for (minor-mode lighter) in minor-mode-alist
           when (equal lighter " be")
           do (diminish minor-mode))
  (beginend-global-mode))

[DamienCassou]

Thank you. I'm using minions mode for some time now so I don't need dimish or similar anymore.

[doolio]

Yes, like Damien I switched to using the minions package some time ago but thank you.

[sshaw]

(dolist (mode beginend-modes) (diminish  mode))

[oantolin]

I think you're missing a cdr:

(dolist (mode beginend-modes) (diminish (cdr mode)))

Also, with this approach one needs to separately diminish beginend-global-mode. (My (equal lighter " be") includes beginend-global-mode too.)

But I do like this better than my approach, so I'm now using:

(use-package beginend
  :ensure t
  :demand t
  :diminish beginend-global-mode
  :config
  (dolist (mode beginend-modes) (diminish (cdr mode)))
  (beginend-global-mode))

Thanks, @sshaw !