getting rid of a mode

getting rid of a mode

[Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle]

Hello,

I may have overlooked it ... if so, please excuse: How do I stop a mode
once it had been called?

E.g.: In wiki-mode it's nice to use outline-minor-mode, but to prevent
mistakes I'd rather prefer to stop outline-minor-mode before saving the
buffer to file.

Thanks, ray

Re: getting rid of a mode

[Sean Richards]

Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <ray@nabuli.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I may have overlooked it ... if so, please excuse: How do I stop a mode
> once it had been called?
>
> E.g.: In wiki-mode it's nice to use outline-minor-mode, but to prevent
> mistakes I'd rather prefer to stop outline-minor-mode before saving the
> buffer to file.
>
> Thanks, ray
>
>

c-h f outline-minor-mode

outline-minor-mode is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `outline'.
(outline-minor-mode &optional ARG)

Toggle Outline minor mode.
With arg, turn Outline minor mode on if arg is positive, off otherwise.
See the command `outline-mode' for more information on this mode.

Sean

-- 
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Re: getting rid of a mode

[Kai Grossjohann]

Raimund Kohl-Fuechsle <ray@nabuli.de> writes:

> E.g.: In wiki-mode it's nice to use outline-minor-mode, but to prevent
> mistakes I'd rather prefer to stop outline-minor-mode before saving the
> buffer to file.

Most minor mode functions are toggles.  That is, invoking them again
turns the mode off again.  Use C-h f to verify.

Usually, you can also pass a numeric arg to explicitly say "on" or
"off":

C-u 1 M-x outline-minor-mode RET                >0, turn on
C-u -1 M-x outline-minor-mode RET               <0, turn off

Use C-h f to verify that the mode you want has this feature.

Kai