From: Colin Yates <colin.yates@gmail.com>
To: Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Doing things only in a particular mode
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:28:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2lhd0hcr2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mrfch9$rno$1@dont-email.me>
Thanks Dan. I did look at those sources, specifiying looking for
something like =mu4e-headers-hook= but couldn't find one.
Do you have any idea about the more generic emacs question?
Specifically, how do I achieve the following:
(when (= MAJOR_MODE "mu4e-headers")
(do this)
(and do that))
Thanks.
Dan Espen writes:
> Colin Yates <colin.yates@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> (newbie warning).
>>
>> So I understand about (add-hook...) but I can't find the hook I
>> want. Basically, I have visual-line-mode turned on globally, but I want
>> to disable it when I view the headers in mu4e.
>>
>> The buffer is called *mu4e-headers* and I can see the major mode is
>> mu4e-headers but the following code has no effect:
>>
>> (add-hook 'mu4e-headers-hook
>> (lambda ()
>> (visual-line-mode 0)))
>>
>> I am not sure how 'hooks' are created - I searched through the source
>> code for my4e-headers-hook but couldn't find it.
>>
>> Assuming this is the right approach, how can I say 'when the major mode
>> is X then do this'. What is the idiomatic Emacs way?
>
> Sorry, I know nothing about mu4e, but the docs seem pretty good.
> Here's where they describe the compose mode hook:
>
> http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Compose-hooks.html#Compose-hooks
>
> Usually I do ^h m (help mode), and the help text mentions the hooks.
--
Sent with my mu4e
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.0.1440427806.19573.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-24 15:18 ` Doing things only in a particular mode Dan Espen
2015-08-24 16:28 ` Colin Yates [this message]
2015-08-24 17:32 ` John Mastro
2015-08-25 1:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-25 1:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-27 5:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-24 17:18 ` Joost Kremers
2015-08-24 17:30 ` Colin Yates
2015-08-24 19:47 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-08-26 13:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-26 19:35 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-08-26 20:09 ` Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo
2015-08-27 13:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-24 14:49 Colin Yates
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