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: Sorting buffers with ibuffer Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:07:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <868f7753-ea47-4f70-9152-ae1a4ee62a6a@r40g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227323283 2888 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2008 03:08:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:08:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 22 04:09:04 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 1L3irn-0005dn-3f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:09:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43451 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3iqe-0002uR-66 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:07:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3iqM-0002uM-NO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:07:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L3iqL-0002ty-3d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:07:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49474 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L3iqL-0002tv-0x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:07:33 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41745 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 1L3iqK-0002Ll-LN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:07:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L3iqC-00030X-4i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:07:24 +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 ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:07:24 +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 ; Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:07:24 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 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 2.0.0.18 (Macintosh/20081105) In-Reply-To: <868f7753-ea47-4f70-9152-ae1a4ee62a6a@r40g2000yqj.googlegroups.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:60014 Archived-At: 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