Unable to diminish subword mode

Question

I have global-subword-mode enabled and diminish installed. I have

(diminish 'subword-mode)

in my init.el. Despite this, subword-mode keeps appearing in the mode-line when I start emacs.

Answer 1

Sometimes diminish can be tricky. Some things work only in an with-eval-after-load form, and some only work in the mode's hook.

In this case, I use:

;; This is because the mode is initialized after the file is loaded?
;; I'm not too sure. I took a peek at the code, and it looks pretty normal.
(with-eval-after-load 'subword
  (diminish 'subword-mode))
(global-subword-mode +1)

This works in emacs -Q, so it should work for you without any problems.