Re: emacs new user.

[Ken Goldman]

Perhaps you should tell us what editing task you're having trouble with.

It sounds like you have a problem and have already decided that listing 
major and minor modes is the solution.  There may be a better solution.

I've been using emacs for perhaps 15 years and never needed to list modes.

Moofar wrote:
> I'm a junior in college and a CS major, and after having tried a couple
> different editors/ide's before, I decided it was time to get good with a
> good text editor and stick with it. So I've been learning emacs. I have
> found many things in emacs I like, yet I have gotten stuck so many times
> trying to learn something and spent so long getting unstuck, that I'm
> thinking its just not worth it. Any thoughts?
> Here's a simple question that has frustrated me and I think may be the straw
> that breaks the camels back, where can I see a list of all the minor and
> major modes I have and the commands to enable them?