Minor modes -- question

[Mike McMahon <MMcM at SCRC-TENEX>]

    Date: 22 June 1982 13:38-EDT
    From: Eugene C. Ciccarelli <ECC at MIT-AI>
    1. The mode is turned on and off globally, perhaps with an
    override in certain buffers, but at the moment I don't much care
    about that.
*INITIAL-MINOR-MODES* are those turned on for new buffers.
*STICKY-MINOR-MODES* are those inherited from the previous buffer.

    2. The mode is turned on and off per-buffer.
This is the default for minor modes.  Provided they are not made pervasive
by one of the variables mentioned above, this will happen.