Re: Calling another major mode in a major mode body

[Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>]

> On Nov 21, 2022, at 4:44 PM, Phil Sainty <psainty@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> On 2022-11-22 11:07, Yuan Fu wrote:
>> So I wonder if it’s ok to fall back to another major mode by simply
>> calling that mode.
> 
> I think the following describes what that would do.
> 
> 
> Quoting myself from https://stackoverflow.com/a/19295380 (and as a
> tangent I'd be happy for some adaptation of that to live somewhere
> in the elisp manual, as I think it was a decent explanation of the
> processes), when we call `child-mode', the full sequence is:
> 
> (run-hooks 'change-major-mode-hook) ;; actually the first thing done by
> (kill-all-local-variables)          ;; <-- this function
> ,@grandparent-body
> ,@parent-body
> ,@child-body
> (run-hooks 'change-major-mode-after-body-hook)
> (run-hooks 'grandparent-mode-hook)
> (run-hooks 'parent-mode-hook)
> (run-hooks 'child-mode-hook)
> (run-hooks 'after-change-major-mode-hook)
> ;; plus the following final step, since:
> ;; commit 2eb6817ba971184cc109f8530f4b3b38f65650ea
> ;; Add :after-hook facility to define-derived-mode.
> (run-hooks delayed-after-hook-functions)
> 
> 
> `delay-mode-hooks' is still in effect until child-body has returned,
> so I believe calling (fallback-mode) within child-body would result
> in this sequence:
> 
> 
> (run-hooks 'change-major-mode-hook) ;; actually the first thing done by
> (kill-all-local-variables)          ;; <-- this function
> ,@grandparent-body
> ,@parent-body
> ,@child-body
> +    (run-hooks 'change-major-mode-hook) ;; actually the first thing done by
> +    (kill-all-local-variables)          ;; <-- this function
> +    ,@fallback-parent-mode-body
> +    ,@fallback-mode-body
> ;; The child-mode binding for `delay-mode-hooks' is now out of scope,
> ;; so `run-mode-hooks' finally acts...
> (run-hooks 'change-major-mode-after-body-hook)
> (run-hooks 'grandparent-mode-hook)
> (run-hooks 'parent-mode-hook)
> (run-hooks 'child-mode-hook)
> +    (run-hooks 'fallback-parent-mode-hook)
> +    (run-hooks 'fallback-mode-hook)
> (run-hooks 'after-change-major-mode-hook)
> (run-hooks delayed-after-hook-functions)
> 
> 
> It looks like things pushed onto `delayed-after-hook-functions'
> would happen in this sequence, though:
> 
> - grandparent-mode
> - parent-mode
> - fallback-parent-mode
> - fallback-mode
> - child-mode
> 
> Although `delayed-after-hook-functions' does not seem to be
> permanent-local, so in fact it might be this?
> 
> - fallback-parent-mode
> - fallback-mode
> - child-mode

Thanks for that detailed explanation :-)

It seems the current mode’s after-hook is ran the very last. So it might be a good place to call the fallback major mode. The call to run-hooks in a major mode invocation command is outside the scope delay-mode-hooks, so simply calling the fallback major mode should be fine?

IMO, the sequence would be
- parent-mode
- child-mode
- parent-hook
- child-hook
- parent-after-hook
- child-after-hook: calls fallback-mode
- fallback-parent ...

Yuan