From: "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
Subject: Re: How to apply a minor mode to all buffers
Date: 23 Jan 2007 09:48:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169574527.698236.9970@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.3429.1169501014.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com>
> > Date: 22 Jan 2007 03:48:30 -0800
> >
> > 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.
>
> Here's a simple solution to a similar problem I have in my .emacs for
> quite some time:
>
> ;;; Turn on trailing whitespace highlighting in modes where
> ;;; it makes sense.
> (let* ((twh-modes '("texinfo-mode" "makefile-mode" "c-mode-common"
> "emacs-lisp-mode" "outline-mode" "sh-mode"
> "shell-script-mode"
> ))
> (elt (car twh-modes)))
> (while elt
> (add-hook (intern (concat elt "-hook"))
> (function (lambda ()
> (setq show-trailing-whitespace t))))
> (setq twh-modes (cdr twh-modes)
> elt (car twh-modes))))
>
> If I ever need to do that in an additional mode, all I have to do is
> add another mode name to the list at the beginning of this snippet:
> hardly a tedious job.
Sure, I once did something similar in .emacs. It's not exactly friendly
to beginners who might want to do this though.
Feel free to ignore my suggestion for until I send you a patch, which
might be never.
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2007-01-18 3:20 ` How to apply a minor mode to all buffers Stefan Monnier
2007-01-18 21:08 ` Malte Spiess
2007-01-18 22:03 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-18 22:33 ` James Aguilar
2007-01-18 22:40 ` Drew Adams
2007-01-19 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-19 16:30 ` James Aguilar
2007-01-19 17:06 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-01-20 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3350.1169310294.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-20 17:38 ` Robert Thorpe
2007-01-20 18:41 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-22 6:55 ` Mathias Dahl
[not found] ` <mailman.3356.1169318483.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-22 11:48 ` Robert Thorpe
2007-01-22 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2007-01-23 17:48 ` Robert Thorpe [this message]
2007-01-23 21:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-22 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3316.1169224240.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-22 16:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-02 19:27 ` leoboiko
2007-02-03 15:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 17:07 ` Leonardo Boiko
2007-02-05 22:14 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-07 7:42 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-02-08 12:10 ` Leonardo Boiko
[not found] ` <mailman.3919.1170444615.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-07 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-07 17:51 ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-08 12:23 ` Leonardo Boiko
2007-02-08 12:20 ` Leonardo Boiko
2007-02-08 12:30 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.4176.1170937835.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-08 16:26 ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-08 22:39 ` Juanma Barranquero
[not found] ` <mailman.4209.1170974375.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-02-09 11:48 ` Robert Thorpe
2007-02-09 12:46 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-01-17 17:51 James Aguilar
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