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python-mode has strong opinions about outline-minor-mode. Where are they documented? (alien.top)
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I'm finding that defining outline-regexp does not do for me in python-mode what it does for me in other language modes. Someone else on Stack Exchange ran into the same problem, and a suggested answer to their question makes it clear that python-mode preconfigures some definitions for outline-minor-mode. But what those preconfigurations are, and more importantly how to use them, is not documented anywhere I can find.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

M-x find-library python, followed by C-s outline- shows what's happening: python-base-mode sets the local outline variables locally, in its mode body. Since mode hooks always run after the body of their mode definitions, you could add a bit of code to the python-base-mode-hook (or a parent of it, like prog-mode-hook) setting your desired outline config there (i.e. overwriting what python mode did).

I do that using outli simply (in a use-package stanza):

 :hook ((prog-mode text-mode) . outli-mode))

BTW, here's a handy guide (from this epic answer) to what runs in which order upon invoking a derived major mode like python-ts-mode:

So when we call (child-mode), the full sequence is:

(run-hooks 'change-major-mode-hook) ;; actually the first thing done by
(kill-all-local-variables)          ;; <-- this function
,@grandparent-body
,@parent-body
,@child-body
(run-hooks 'change-major-mode-after-body-hook)
(run-hooks 'grandparent-mode-hook)
(run-hooks 'parent-mode-hook)
(run-hooks 'child-mode-hook)
(run-hooks 'after-change-major-mode-hook)