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text modes vs. programming language modes
From: |
Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: |
text modes vs. programming language modes |
Date: |
Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:38:50 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) |
Is there a reliable way to determine whether the current major mode
is a text mode vs. a programming language mode? For example, do all
text modes use a keymap that inherits from text-mode-map or a syntax
table that inherits from text-mode-syntax-table?
I suspect not, so I'm thinking of using something like:
(defun major-mode-type ()
(let ((lisp-directory (expand-file-name "../lisp" data-directory))
(mode-directory (directory-file-name
(file-name-directory
(symbol-file major-mode 'defun)))))
(and (not (equal lisp-directory mode-directory))
(file-relative-name mode-directory lisp-directory))))
which e.g. returns nil for dired-mode and Info-mode, "textmodes" for
text-mode and sgml-mode, and "progmodes" for java-mode and sql-mode.
--
Kevin
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