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I have enabled org-indent-mode in all org files as such:

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'org-indent-mode)

Now I want to diminish the "Ind" minor mode, which seems to be beyond my abilities. I know the diminish package is loading and working properly, as other diminishes work as expected.

I managed to find (add-hook 'org-mode-hook '(diminish 'org-indent-mode)), which actually diminishes the mode, but also shows File mode specification error: (invalid-function (diminish (quote org-indent-mode))) in messages, which seems like I'm doing something wrong.

A list of other things I've tried that don't work:

(eval-after-load "org" '(diminish 'org-indent-mode))

(diminish 'org-indent-mode)

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
      (lambda ()
      (diminish 'org-indent-mode))

(defun dim-org-ind-mode ()
    "Hah, this doesn't work either."
    (interactive)
    (diminish 'org-indent-mode))
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'dim-org-ind-mode)

Using M-x diminish works fine with no errors in messages.

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    There's a missing closing paren in your first add-hook. I'm referring to the list of things you tried.
    – Manuel Uberti
    Commented May 25, 2016 at 16:51

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Your eval-after-load is close to correct. Check out C-h f org-indent-mode (after Org is loaded):

org-indent-mode is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in `org-indent.el'.

Diminish hacks directly into the variable minor-mode-alist, so the call to it must occur after org-indent.el has been loaded, not just org.el:

(with-eval-after-load 'org-indent
  (require 'diminish)
  (diminish 'org-indent-mode))
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Either of these worked for me:

; whacka's answer
(eval-after-load 'org-indent '(diminish 'org-indent-mode))

; fixed Gastove's answer
(add-hook 'org-indent-mode-hook (lambda () (diminish 'org-indent-mode)))
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  • OP mentioned that these snippets don't work for him.
    – user12563
    Commented May 15, 2019 at 21:27
  • I don't see where OP mentioned that. Please read more carefully and you will see that there is a difference between my solution and what they tried. Every character counts.
    – niko
    Commented May 15, 2019 at 22:31
  • You're right, I haven't paid enough attention to hook names.
    – user12563
    Commented May 15, 2019 at 22:34
  • The first version is included in whacka's answer
    – Andrew Swann
    Commented May 16, 2019 at 11:44
  • It is indeed. That's where I got mine from. I actually just wanted to comment on Gastove's answer but since I didn't have enough points I figured to post yet another answer with all versions that worked for me.
    – niko
    Commented May 16, 2019 at 22:36
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You're very close! add-hook expects that you're going to add a function to a hook, not the evaluation of an expression. You just need to wrap your call to diminish in a lambda, like this:

(add-hook 'org-indent-mode-hook (lambda () (diminish 'org-indent-mode)))
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  • I can't seem to get @gastove's answer to work for some reason, but it pushed me to try something else, which does work: (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (org-indent-mode 1) (diminish 'org-indent-mode))) I think it might be because of a load-order issue, perhaps because org-indent-mode takes time to complete?
    – Geoff
    Commented May 25, 2016 at 17:33
  • Yes, org-mode-hook is the wrong hook to use. See niko's answer for the more appropriate hook. The eval-after-load method is better, though, so I recommend using that instead of a mode hook.
    – phils
    Commented May 16, 2019 at 22:51

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