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>>> On 3 Jan 91 16:01:16 GMT, worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) said:

worley> The documentation string for minor-mode-alist is not accurate, because
worley> the constructs which are allowed are more general than documented.
worley> (And people are now using them.)  A better documentation string would
worley> be:

worley> Alist saying how to show minor modes in the mode line.
worley> Each element looks like (VARIABLE STRING);
worley> STRING is included in the mode line iff VARIABLE's value is non-nil.
worley> All possibilities described for  mode-line-format  are also allowed.

Actually, it is even more general (at least in 18.55):

    Alist saying how to show minor modes in the mode line.
    Each element looks like (VARIABLE STRING-1 &optional STRING-2);
    STRING-1 is included in the mode line if VARIABLE's value is non-nil,
    else STRING-2 (if present) is included.
    All possibilities described for  mode-line-format  are also allowed.
    Each STRING may also be another alist element of the same form.

I realized this when someone posted code which put

    (case-fold-search "" " NoCFS")

and

    (buffer-auto-save-file-name "" (buffer-file-name " NoSave" ""))

in the minor-mode-alist.
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Sebastian Kremer <sk@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE>
Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R. of Germany