From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Query Major Mode Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:55:55 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20050721183342.GE2692@johnsons-web.com> <20050721193258.GF2692@johnsons-web.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121988622 10102 80.91.229.2 (21 Jul 2005 23:30:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 23:30:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 22 01:30:22 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvkUb-0008WP-5o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 01:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvkWi-0001GR-30 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:32:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DvkQl-00071U-H2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:26:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DvkQT-0006wI-Hw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:26:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DvkQS-0006ho-A7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:26:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Dvk7m-0004bz-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Dvjxg-0005yT-KV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:56:16 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:56:16 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:56:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20050721193258.GF2692@johnsons-web.com> 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:28077 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28077 Tim Johnson wrote: > (defun previous-subroutine () > (cond > (eq major-mode "python")(previous-python-subroutine) > (eq major-mode "C")(previous-C-subroutine) > (eq major-mode "rebol")(previous-rebol-subroutine) > )) The value of major-mode is a symbol, e.g. python-mode. The value of mode-name is a string, e.g. "Python". -- Kevin Rodgers