From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I find out what minor modes are in effect? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:54:43 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <8762d6z2kc.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1334160026 3877 80.91.229.3 (11 Apr 2012 16:00:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:00:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 11 18:00:26 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SHzy3-0004cM-Nk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:00:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SHzy3-0004NW-0a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:00:23 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Trace: individual.net v2pmSYxWQU/iojRRp8dMDA/lqVPen6WlFm7ozx9zL2xWWpO3sz Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y2M1ZDkxMTJhYWY4N2ExMjRiNWFhNTI4Yzg4NThmZGZmNzg1M2JlNw== sha1:2aI/Ot22KOTydUQCbAlUgzQR4EE= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:192012 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84427 Archived-At: Doug Lewan writes: > I'm writing a function that needs to change the major mode to do its stuff properly. > That can turn off minor modes too. > The obvious polite thing to do is turn them all back on when I'm done. > > Resetting the major mode is easy: > (defun vertical-text (text) > (let ((mode-to-restore major-mode) > (picture-mode) > ... > (funcall mode-to-restore))) > > How do I find out what minor modes are in effect? (defun current-minor-modes (&optional buffer) "The list of the minor modes currently active in the buffer (or current buffer)." (let ((result '())) (with-current-buffer (or buffer (current-buffer)) (dolist (mode minor-mode-list result) (when (and (boundp mode) (symbol-value mode)) (push mode result)))))) > And in what order they were invoked? Depending on where they're called, in the various hooks and init files. > (They can stomp on each other and Indeed. Have a look at with-mode-local too. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.