Re: Ideas for hl-line-mode

[Dave Abrahams]

on Fri Sep 30 2011, Eli Zaretskii <eliz-AT-gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Dave Abrahams <address@hidden>
>
>> Cc: address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:17:25 -0400
>> 
>> > Does
>> >
>> >    (eq (get major-mode 'mode-class) 'special)
>> >
>> > do what you want?
>> 
>> Cool, I was hoping someone would point out an existing facility I didn't
>> know about...
>> 
>> Oh, interesting.  It's probably a very good heuristic, though I'm not
>> sure the description of this mode-class as "only for
>> specially-prepared text" really implies that horizontal position is
>> irrelevant.
>
> If you provide a list of those modes which you are interested in, we
> could see whether the fact they are `special' is a coincidence or
> something else.

I'm interested in all present and future modes.  I don't see anything in
the manual that suggests the two sets in question will be/should be/are
identical.

Anyway, thanks; it's a start.

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Dave Abrahams
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