From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: describe-mode "some-mode"? Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:27:24 +0200 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87bnrc1lkz.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408728486 5958 80.91.229.3 (22 Aug 2014 17:28:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:28:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 22 19:28:00 2014 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 1XKsd5-0003CL-AP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:27:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38564 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKsd4-000172-Ta for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:27:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKscq-00016X-Ha for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:27:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKscl-0004K4-F8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from client-194-42-186-216.muenet.net ([194.42.186.216]:57109 helo=jarl.yagibdah.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XKscl-0004Jl-8S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 13:27:39 -0400 Original-Received: from yun.yagibdah.de ([192.168.3.20]) by jarl.yagibdah.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XKsci-0003uq-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:27:36 +0200 Original-Received: from lee by yun.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1XKsci-0000p1-Li for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Aug 2014 19:27:36 +0200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 194.42.186.216 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:99352 Archived-At: Hi, is there a function like describe-key which describes a mode specified by the user? The docstring of describe-mode says it either describes the mode of the current buffer or of the buffer given. How can I get a description of a mode without enabling the mode in a buffer? -- GNU Emacs 24.4.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2014-08-17 on yun.yagibdah.de