report-emacs-bug could also list current modes

report-emacs-bug could also list current modes

[Dan Jacobson]

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.
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)

mc-modes-alist
  Variable: Association list (indexed by major mode) of association lists
  Plist: variable-documentation
minor-modes
mmm-c-derived-modes
  Variable: (not documented)
...
mode-line-modes
  Plist: risky-local-variable
modes
modesym
nnmail-default-file-modes
  Variable: Set the mode bits of all new mail files to this integer.

Re: report-emacs-bug could also list current modes

[Kevin Rodgers]

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

Re: report-emacs-bug could also list current modes

[Dan Jacobson]

>> 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.

K> C-x C-b (list-buffers) shows each buffer's major mode.

I meant a list of all the modes in effect for this buffer.  Yes, there
they are mostly in the modeline, but how about a lisp list?

>> 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)

K> Try: C-h a -mode\'

OK, C-h a -mode$
looks simpler for me.

Re: report-emacs-bug could also list current modes

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

>>>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.
> 
> K> C-x C-b (list-buffers) shows each buffer's major mode.
> 
> I meant a list of all the modes in effect for this buffer.  Yes, there
> they are mostly in the modeline, but how about a lisp list?


If you need it, you could write it yourself:

(defun buffer-mode-list ()
   "Return a list of the current buffer's major mode and minor modes."
   (interactive)
   (let ((modes (cons major-mode
                      (apply 'nconc
                             (mapcar (lambda (key-value)
                                       (let ((variable (car key-value)))
                                         (if (and (boundp variable)
                                                  (symbol-value variable))
                                             (list (symbol-name variable)))))
                                     minor-mode-alist)))))
     (if (interactive-p)
         (message "%s" modes)
       modes)))


>>>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)
>>>
> 
> K> Try: C-h a -mode\'
> 
> OK, C-h a -mode$
> looks simpler for me.

But won't return symbols with a newline in their name.  :-)


-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: report-emacs-bug could also list current modes

[Andreas Schwab]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
>> K> Try: C-h a -mode\'
>> OK, C-h a -mode$
>> looks simpler for me.
>
> But won't return symbols with a newline in their name.  :-)

It will, and it may match even more than the first.

Andreas.

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