Re: List of major modes?

[Kevin Rodgers]

David Reitter wrote:
> How would I go about compiling a list of all major modes available in
> the current emacs session?
> (Both loaded ones and autoloadable ones.)
>
> My first thought was doing something like
>
>  (apropos-internal ".*-mode$")
>
> which works, but doesn't distinguish between major and minor modes,
> which would be important.
>
> I cannot actually run any of the mode functions (would take way too 
long).
>
>  From looking at the elisp level code, there is very little
> programmatic distinction between minor and major modes, at least
> nothing that could be easily detected.

Here's the best I could come up with:

(apropos-internal "-mode\\'"
                  (lambda (mode)
                    (and (commandp mode)
                         (string-match "\\`Major mode\\>"
                                       (documentation mode)))))

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Kevin Rodgers