From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Richard M. Stallman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: List of major modes? Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:43:46 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4374ED02.20904@student.lu.se> <976C42B7-60B9-4A3A-8BC7-7FB81E2F5FE1@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132033981 12006 80.91.229.2 (15 Nov 2005 05:53:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 05:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 15 06:52:47 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbteE-0008C1-B2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 06:46:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EbteD-0007wO-QJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:46:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebtbg-0006hx-NZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:43:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebtbf-0006hT-Vw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:43:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ebtbf-0006h1-0N; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:43:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ebtbf-0005wP-Ed; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:43:47 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Ebtbe-0004Gl-B9; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:43:46 -0500 Original-To: Kevin Rodgers In-reply-to: (message from Kevin Rodgers on Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:26:03 -0700) 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:31056 gmane.emacs.devel:46007 Archived-At: It is not correct to assume that every major mode has a keymap named after it. However, major mode commands take no arguments, whereas every minor mode command takes an argument. There may be one or two exceptions, major mode commands that take arguments, but it would be easy to put them on a list of exceptions.