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: emacs mode line suggestions Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 02:39:35 -0700 Message-ID: References: <15962952-6180-41bd-abce-1b919aa55807@v13g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <433211B3-07C5-459D-A620-581DFA5931EB@digg.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227001312 16655 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2008 09:41:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:41:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 18 10:42:54 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L2N6i-0008Pq-Pq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:42:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58140 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2N5a-0005vT-9T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:41:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2N3l-0005Tz-6b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L2N3j-0005TH-1x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:39:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46096 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L2N3i-0005TD-Qz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45733 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L2N3i-0005uD-CE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:39:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L2N3f-0005VG-0l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:39:43 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:39:43 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:39:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) In-Reply-To: <433211B3-07C5-459D-A620-581DFA5931EB@digg.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:59896 Archived-At: Ian Eure wrote: > I think the only time I manually switch modes is when I need to use > *scratch* for something, e.g. I'll switch to emacs-lisp-mode if I want > to eval some code, sql-mode if I want to write a query, etc. > > I should probably write some functions to give me *lisp* and *SQL* > buffers with the appropriate mode. I leave initial-major-mode set to lisp-interaction-mode, so *scratch* is my Emacs Lisp buffer. And I've got this in my ~/.emacs: (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Text*") (text-mode)) (with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*SQL*") (sql-mode)) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA