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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: text modes vs. programming language modes
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:38:50 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ecf8bi$c35$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)

Is there a reliable way to determine whether the current major mode
is a text mode vs. a programming language mode?  For example, do all
text modes use a keymap that inherits from text-mode-map or a syntax
table that inherits from text-mode-syntax-table?

I suspect not, so I'm thinking of using something like:

(defun major-mode-type ()
   (let ((lisp-directory (expand-file-name "../lisp" data-directory))
	(mode-directory (directory-file-name
			 (file-name-directory
			  (symbol-file major-mode 'defun)))))
     (and (not (equal lisp-directory mode-directory))
	 (file-relative-name mode-directory lisp-directory))))

which e.g. returns nil for dired-mode and Info-mode, "textmodes" for 
text-mode and sgml-mode,  and "progmodes" for java-mode and sql-mode.

-- 
Kevin

             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-22 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-22 15:38 Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2006-08-22 16:23 ` text modes vs. programming language modes Eric Hanchrow

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