From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: List of major modes? Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:21:26 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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 1132079462 27357 80.91.229.2 (15 Nov 2005 18:31:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 15 19:30:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5Sx-0002iP-31 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:23:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5Sw-00078N-G1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:23:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5Sj-000777-5i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:23:21 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5Sh-00076p-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:23:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5Sh-00076m-GA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:23:19 -0500 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 1Ec5Sh-0005lR-Bu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:23:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ec5Rh-0002De-SB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:22:17 +0100 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 ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:22:17 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:22:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 23 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: 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:31075 gmane.emacs.devel:46036 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > > I still think it would be better to include functions that follow the > > major mode conventions than to exclude functions that don't follow the > > minor mode conventions. The Emacs Lisp manual has nodes describing both > > sets of conventions. > > It is impossible to create a list of major modes, because a major mode is > simply a lisp function, with nothing definitive to distinguish it from > any other lisp function. Yes. We have been discussing heuristics that could be used in the absence of a definitive test. > So how about having a property `emacs-mode' on symbols, with valid values > (major minor major-minor nil)? Getting a list of major modes would then > be trivial. (OK, for Emacs 23. ;-) Did you mean (major minor global-minor nil)? -- Kevin Rodgers