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Re: List of major modes?
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Kevin Rodgers |
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Re: List of major modes? |
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Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:21:26 -0700 |
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Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> > I still think it would be better to include functions that follow the
> > major mode conventions than to exclude functions that don't follow the
> > minor mode conventions. The Emacs Lisp manual has nodes describing
both
> > sets of conventions.
>
> It is impossible to create a list of major modes, because a major mode is
> simply a lisp function, with nothing definitive to distinguish it from
> any other lisp function.
Yes. We have been discussing heuristics that could be used in the
absence of a definitive test.
> So how about having a property `emacs-mode' on symbols, with valid values
> (major minor major-minor nil)? Getting a list of major modes would then
> be trivial. (OK, for Emacs 23. ;-)
Did you mean (major minor global-minor nil)?
--
Kevin Rodgers
- Re: List of major modes?, (continued)
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- RE: List of major modes?, Drew Adams, 2005/11/11
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