From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trying to find the status of auto-fill-mode in a buffer Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:38:41 +0100 Message-ID: <87o72b3yzi.fsf@web.de> References: <20241119084323.5e3eaeb0@enoush2o> <86jzczbm0l.fsf@aarsen.me> <20241119114909.5cb99396@enoush2o> Reply-To: Michael Heerdegen Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="16009"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5NebrCwe+vDi9lHhRIfz873Bacw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 19 18:38:18 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tDSB7-00040u-Qg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:38:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tDSAk-0005Rs-0g; Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:37:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tDSAh-0005RS-Gu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:37:51 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tDSAf-0007FB-UJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:37:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tDSAe-0003VW-1L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:37:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:148349 Archived-At: Alexandros Prekates writes: > > > C-h f auto-fill-mode says : > > > ''To check whether the minor mode is > > > enabled in the current buffer, evaluate ‘auto-fill-function’. '' > > > > > > How do we test that IN a certain buffer ? > > > I evaluated (auto-fill-function) in scratch buffer > > > but it gives me nil. > It seemed like little a riddle!! Evaluate a variable that has function > in its name. The code that generates this particular output is relatively new (a couple of months). In the general case, what has to be evaluated can potentially be any kind of expression, but maybe we could find a better wording in the special case where the expression is a variable, like here. Maybe "look at the binding of VAR" or something like that. Would that have been less confusing? Michael.