Re: Keybinding that loops through Major Modes

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2020 at 1:29 PM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
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> Subject: Re: Keybinding that loops through Major Modes
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> Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>
> >> The major power would not be the highlighting itself, but the
> >> operations associated with the mode.
> >
> > A method that would be a bit cleaner in my eyes would be a command
> > that lets you edit a specified region in a temp buffer in the
> > correct mode.
>
> The best method:
>
> - several files
>
> - one file, one mode
>
> - the "associated operations" belonging to one mode can easily enough
>   be made generic if indeed correct they are useful for another mode


In principle you are correct.  However, if one uses ogg and rec you want
those features available some of the time, because if the file is a fortran
file, I would be mainly working in fortran mode.  Some modes are very rich
and not completely applicable to code.

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