Diminish Emacs Minor Modes

Many global minor modes may not display on the mode line. If they don’t, and I’m going to have them on all the time, I fully diminish them as well. Examples are org-edna-mode and undo-tree-mode.

A few minor modes, such as flycheck-mode and lsp-mode will sometimes display information in the mode line. While I’m sure there’s a way to reduce their sizes, this seemed a little too complex for me so I leave them untouched.

There are minor modes that act as ’companions’ to major modes. For example, org-num-mode and org-indent-mode for org-mode. These greatly alter the behaviour and appearance of an Org buffer, so I like it to be clear if they are on, but I diminish them to single characters next to the major mode string, with # for org-num-mode and > for org-indent-mode, producing Org#> with both enabled. I believe this should only be done with non-alphabetical characters, or the result will look ugly.

I want it to be as clear as possible if something like abbrev-mode is enabled, since it can greatly alter the behaviour of the editor when it’s on, and I am quite likely to toggle it throughout the lifespan of a buffer. As such, I do not diminish this sort of mode. Another example is magit-blame-mode.