From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: report-emacs-bug could also list current modes Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 09:29:32 -0600 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F6F155C.4010606@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064245265 27738 80.91.224.253 (22 Sep 2003 15:41:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:41:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 22 17:41:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A1SoA-00033n-00 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:41:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A1Snl-0001Iv-38 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:40:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A1Sgh-0005s3-J1 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A1SeL-0005BY-1w for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.168.1.22] (helo=trinity.supernews.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.22) id 1A1Sd6-0004fJ-AG for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:29:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.11.165]:17079 ident=root) by trinity.supernews.net with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1A1Sd3-0002Uo-H6 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:29:33 +0000 Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:29:31 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 17:29:31 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 26 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1064244571 3686199 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5837 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:5837 Dan Jacobson wrote: > report-emacs-bug in its report could also list the current major and minor modes in > effect... > > By the way, aside from blabberous describe-mode, and staring at the > mode line, where is a concise list of the current modes in effect? > There is no list-modes, show-modes, etc. C-x C-b (list-buffers) shows each buffer's major mode. > I do apropos modes, and see things like "minor-modes" with no > explanation of what they are doing there on a separate line: > (apropos "modes" nil) Try: C-h a -mode\' (The minor-modes line is telling you that the symbol is interned in the standard obarray, but it has no value or function binding.) -- Kevin Rodgers