From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs new user. Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:46:57 -0400 Message-ID: <46f97092$1@news.greennet.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190670085 17331 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2007 21:41:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:41:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 24 23:41:21 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 1IZvg7-0001NK-RD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:41:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZvg5-0002hA-3h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:41:17 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 000C89FF4C00; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 Original-X-Trace: 25 Sep 2007 16:33:22 -0400, 192.91.197.52 Original-Lines: 17 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!nntpserver.com!zeus.nntpserver.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!feedme.ziplink.net!news.greennet.net!192.91.197.52 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152303 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:47813 Archived-At: 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?