unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sorting buffers with ibuffer
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:07:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gg7t0v$2mq$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <868f7753-ea47-4f70-9152-ae1a4ee62a6a@r40g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>

z0d wrote:
> By the way, what's the difference between 'major-mode' and 'mode-
> name'? 'mode-name' isn't mentioned in the documentation, but if I
> cycle through sorting modes with ',' I see it on the mode-line.

`C-h v' tells all.  Basically, major-mode's value is a symbol whose
function binding defines a major mode.  mode-line's value is a string
for display.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA





  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-22  3:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-21 18:07 Sorting buffers with ibuffer z0d
2008-11-21 18:36 ` z0d
2008-11-23  2:39   ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1052.1227407986.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-26  3:29     ` z0d
2008-11-26 10:28       ` Juanma Barranquero
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1281.1227695324.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-26 18:21         ` z0d
2008-11-22  3:07 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.990.1227323256.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-23 11:45   ` z0d

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to='gg7t0v$2mq$1@ger.gmane.org' \
    --to=kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).