How to turn typopunct minor mode on globally

Question

I want to be able to use typopunct minor mode globally.

I have tried to add (global-typopunct-mode 1) to my init file, like so

;; Typopunct mode
(require 'typopunct)
(typopunct-change-language 'english t)
(global-typopunct-mode 1)

but I get this error: Symbol's function definition is void: global-typopunct-mode. Then I thought that the problem could be something similar to this post, but I have package-initalize on my init.el file (as shown below)

;; MELPA controls
(when (>= emacs-major-version 24)  
  (require 'package)
  (setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
  ;; (add-to-list 'package-archives '("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/")) 
  (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/")) ;; install it manually
  ;;(add-to-list 'package-archives '("ox-odt" . "https://kjambunathan.github.io/elpa/"))
  (package-initialize))

which makes me believe that typopunct was not meant to be activated globally... Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

I think I got it. Note: I am a newbie to elisp so any comments/corrections are most welcome. Just add the following line to the typopunct.el file after the define-minor-mode typopunct-mode

(define-globalized-minor-mode global-typopunct-mode typopunct-mode (lambda () (typopunct-mode 1)))

From the documentation I should also define a non-globalized version, so that people can use (or disable) it in individual buffers, but that is beyond me at this point :-). If anyone wants to add it please go ahead!

Update

As suggested by Tobias this more selective version avoids messing up with programming modes.

(define-globalized-minor-mode global-typopunct-mode typopunct-mode (lambda () (when (null (derived-mode-p 'prog-mode)) (typopunct-mode))))