From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to apply a minor mode to all buffers Date: 22 Jan 2007 03:48:30 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169466510.208240.112060@51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> References: <877ivkjb66.fsf@trick.ulm.malte.spiess> <1169314688.257876.13620@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169469644 11909 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2007 12:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 22 13:40:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H8yTS-00072y-L6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8yTS-0001q7-5q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:40:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169466516 21636 127.0.0.1 (22 Jan 2007 11:48:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:48:36 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 51g2000cwl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144904 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40509 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > Robert Thorpe wrote: > > > I think it would be useful is Emacs had some more general hooks than > > the ones it has a present, for example:- > > progmodes-hook - A hook ran whenever a programming language mode starts > > plain-text-modes-hook - A hook ran by text-mode, > > paragraph-indent-text-mode etc > > formatted-text-modes-hook - A hook ran by tex-mode, nroff-mode, > > sgml-mode etc > > > > This would provide the functionality with less code than hooking many > > modes. It would avoid the problem of weird minor modes affecting > > temporary buffers and things like M-x snake. > > > > I might write that sometime, but I can't right now. > > > Did you look at `after-change-major-mode-hook'? The after-change-mode-hook is still quite tedious. Let's say you want to enable hide-show mode in every mode in which it's useful. Generally it's only useful in programming language modes and a few text modes, currently the only way to accurately do this is to enable it individually in many hooks.