Emacs: How to disable specific global mode in major-mode hook?

Question

I use global-autopair-mode, but with Ruby the ruby-electric-mode provides better autopairing.

I'm a n00b to Emacs and Lisp, so I would have thought you could do something like:

(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
             (autopair-mode nil)
             (ruby-electric-mode t))

This however doesn't work. Is there a way to disable global modes within a major-mode hook?

Currently I'm using the last solution posted here, but it's not very neat and clean.

Duplicate of [automatically disable a global minor mode for a specific major mode](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6837511/automatically-disable-a-global-minor-mode-for-a-specific-major-mode) — phils, Jul 28 '11 at 12:23

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 28 '11 at 13:15

5

autopair mode honors autopair-dont-activate, used like so:

(add-hook 'ruby-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
             (setq autopair-dont-activate t)
             (ruby-electric-mode t))

edited Jul 28 '11 at 13:15

phils

answered Jul 28 '11 at 12:28

jtahlborn

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 28 '11 at 10:23

0

Try replacing (autopair-mode nil) with (autopair-mode -1).

answered Jul 28 '11 at 10:23

Victor Deryagin

2 Answers2