Re: Major and minor modes

[Krishnakant <krmane@openmailbox.org>]

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Krishnakant.


On Wednesday 14 June 2017 07:19 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> Can anyone explain to me clearly how Major modes and minor modes work
>> together. Can any minor mode work within any major mode? How do these work
>> together?
>>
>> Everything is explained in Chapter 20 of the Emacs Manual.
> Depends what Emacs version you use.  For versions 24 and 25
> it is chapter 23, "Major and Minor Modes".  For version 23
> it is chapter 27, "Major Modes" and section and 57.1, "Minor
> Modes".  It is here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Modes.html
>
> In sum, a major mode is buffer-specific.
> As such, it typically does something appropriate for that
> buffer content.
>
> A minor mode can be buffer-specific (local) or not (global).
> Minor-mode key bindings override major-mode key bindings.
> A minor mode can do anything at all.  What it does need not
> be specific for the content of any particular buffer, and
> hence for any particular major mode.
>