Re: List of major modes?

[Lennart Borgman]

David Reitter wrote:

> The following dynamic definition seems to "sort of" work.
>
> (defun major-modes ()
>  (apropos-internal "-mode\\'"
>    (lambda (mode)
>      (and (commandp mode)
>       (not (string-match "\\`turn-\\(on\\|off\\)-"
>                    (symbol-name mode)))
>         (not (assq mode minor-mode-list))))))
>
>
> I don't know, however, whether minor-mode-list is complete, i.e.  
> whether it contains the not-yet-auto-loaded minor modes. From what I  
> see in easy-mmode.el, it doesn't look like it.


Maybe I should change my mind. It looks good. If you marry this with the 
code in describe-mode you can perhaps populate minor-mode-list first 
with all minor modes. At least it seems so in that code. (Older minor 
modes seems to be in minor-mode-alist.)