A function for getting the minor-modes of the current buffer

[Deniz Dogan]

I found that there for some reason is no easy way of getting a list of
all the minor modes for a current buffer. Is there any particular
reason for that?

To try to help, I ripped out and slightly modified some code from
`describe-mode' to do this (see below). Any comments on it?

-- 
Deniz Dogan


(defun minor-modes ()
  "Get the list of minor modes for the current buffer."
  (let (minor-modes)
    ;; Older packages do not register in minor-mode-list but only in
    ;; minor-mode-alist.
    (dolist (x minor-mode-alist)
      (setq x (car x))
      (unless (memq x minor-mode-list)
        (push x minor-mode-list)))
    ;; Find enabled minor mode we will want to mention.
    (dolist (mode minor-mode-list)
      ;; Document a minor mode if it is listed in minor-mode-alist,
      ;; non-nil, and has a function definition.
      (let ((fmode (or (get mode :minor-mode-function) mode)))
        (and (boundp mode) (symbol-value mode)
             (fboundp fmode)
             (push fmode minor-modes))))
    minor-modes))