From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18992: 24.4; describe-mode Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:16:28 +0100 Message-ID: <545DDF6C.9000901@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415438311 24742 80.91.229.3 (8 Nov 2014 09:18:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 09:18:31 +0000 (UTC) To: 18992@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 08 10:18:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn2A4-0006ql-KW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:18:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35328 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn2A4-0001g9-7l for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:18:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn29u-0001eY-RK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:18:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn29i-0002MK-OV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:18:14 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:56172) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn29i-0002MA-LD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:18:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn29i-00019C-8g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:18:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Andreas =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=B6hler?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:18:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 18992 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.14154382284335 (code B ref -1); Sat, 08 Nov 2014 09:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 8 Nov 2014 09:17:08 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53385 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn28p-00017r-Jk for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:17:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36534) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn28n-00017i-1s for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:17:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn28f-00022k-DV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:17:04 -0500 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:60142) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn28f-00022g-Av for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:16:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn28Z-0001S3-1i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:16:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn28S-00021i-Im for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.131]:63426) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xn28S-00021W-9A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:16:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.178.32] (brln-4db93dba.pool.mediaWays.net [77.185.61.186]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreue002) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LdQdm-1YVTYZ3B2I-00il7M; Sat, 08 Nov 2014 10:16:42 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:u7GuBSeS42b7K1vQPPZelaD8+LyfqgJOjWaUiCaKUP/ 9uVNbS+dDx6FsA0YkW5DCXDSA6yYz1kqaGxRmKXCziqLIo1SdW CCCrc7rWiTmpmomfzY5x/F7WdoKZwkO9huL9HrJlU926EBAb0F +AbUEFJHTpobujZ04dwJ+KMnvcyeBxcl0Uz9vujoBUb3oYym35 9PGQrY15wYEPYpT7/KGgD9hDcFzyRgYVRW+UuReG7t5owIKxHT sfFMJpVTCa+kHFcNz2FyhC973yFbMcZ34+gK7ZkcRHjD1sZ4pk nxINcKadbu06HpMVvoEGvvpQNWfNbwTNvWmYHFMDJ+JE71afK9 2ZkBPAhaSp5ZJUzJc7lrop+NlkkMIrY6sglR8r6TC X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:95708 M-x describe-mode RET should report the major-mode. Currently it tells the value of "mode-name". Several issues with this: - Value of mode-name is displayed in current-buffers mode-line allready - mode-name often will be a quit shortened, as space in mode-line is precious - don't see a usage of mode-name beyond mode-line - user will be interested in value of major-mode, which isn't told See for example from inside a M-x shell RET M-x describe-mode says: "Shell mode" while the real major-mode is sh-mode Thanks all, Andreas Röhler In GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2014-10-24 Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11204000 System Description: Debian GNU/Linux 7.7 (wheezy) Important settings: value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Shell-script Minor modes in effect: sh-electric-here-document-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: C-h f d e s c r i b e - m o d e C-x o C-x 1 C-x 1 C-s m o d e - n a m e M-x s h e l l C-h v m a j p r - o r - m o C-x C-f e i n . s h C-h f C-d C-g C-h v m a j o r - m o d e s h - m o d e C-x C-w M-x d e s c r i b e - m o d e C-x o C-SPC C-e M-w C-x o M-x r e p o r t - e m a c s - b u g Recent messages: (New file) Setting up indent for shell type sh Indentation variables are now local. Indentation setup for shell type sh Quit You can run the command `describe-mode' with C-h m Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils sh-script smie executable pp shell pcomplete comint ansi-color ring misearch multi-isearch find-func help-mode easymenu help-fns time-date tooltip electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process inotify dynamic-setting x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs) Memory information: ((conses 8 122385 5181) (symbols 24 36505 0) (miscs 20 123 292) (strings 16 50339 4912) (string-bytes 1 680645) (vectors 8 11520) (vector-slots 4 437709 3282) (floats 8 67 468) (intervals 28 565 16) (buffers 512 16) (heap 1024 30852 417))