Re: [External] : Re: command mode-specificity [was: scratch/command 064f146 1/2: Change...]

[Óscar Fuentes]

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Assuming you're right (Lars hasn't spoken up),
> what's the real answer?  Do you have the same
> feeling as Eli and I, that most commands usable
> in most contexts are not mode-specific?

I would say that *all* commands *usable in most contexts* are not
mode-specific.

Almost by definition.

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> In gnus/*.el, there's 1018 interactive commands.  Of those, I've tagged
> 660 interactive commands as being mode-specific.

That number looks surprisingly low to me. Maybe it's because some
limitation on the tagging system or because Gnus is a bit of a
"transversal" package, like Org and Calc.

OTOH, I expect that almost all commands defined in packages such as
C-Mode (and almost every other programming mode) are mode-specific.