From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Query Major Mode Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:45:04 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20050721183342.GE2692@johnsons-web.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121971751 31132 80.91.229.2 (21 Jul 2005 18:49:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:49:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 21 20:49:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dvg5t-0005EN-8J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 20:48:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dvg7z-0005HN-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:50:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dvg6k-0004nh-Rv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:49:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dvg6X-0004eZ-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dvg6X-0004dr-Fn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:49:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [141.146.126.228] (helo=agminet01.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DvgCL-0007Pd-Tn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:55:10 -0400 Original-Received: from agminet01.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j6LIj60N030908 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.49]) by agminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.7/Switch-3.1.7) with ESMTP id j6LIj6sJ030878 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:45:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id j6LIj5wg026001 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:45:05 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap (dradams-lap.us.oracle.com [130.35.177.126]) by rgmsgw300.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.4/Switch-3.1.0) with SMTP id j6LIj5rw025993 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:45:05 -0600 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-reply-to: <20050721183342.GE2692@johnsons-web.com> Importance: Normal X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE 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:28055 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28055 Is there a way to query the major mode for a buffer? There are lots of ways, depending on what you mean by query. Does `C-h m' do what you want? Pointers to docs should suffice. `C-h i' Emacs