$major-mode-ids(5)

NAME

$major-mode-ids - Filtered major-mode ID list

SYNOPSIS

$major-mode-ids MajorModeId

DESCRIPTION

$major-mode-ids must first be initialized to the required filter string, if the variable is evaluated before it is initialized the value will be set to "ABORT" and the command will fail. The filter takes the form of a regex.

Once initialized, evaluating $major-mode-ids returns the name of the next major-mode which matches the filter until no more major-modes are found, in which case an empty string is returned.

EXAMPLE

The following example prints out the full name of all major-modes to the massage line one at a time. Note that &set(4) is used on the !while(4) statement to avoid evaluating $major-mode-ids twice per loop.

set-variable $major-mode-ids ".*" 
!while &not &seq "" &set #l0 $major-mode-ids 
  0 major-mode #l0 
  set-variable #l1 $result 
  100 ml-write &spr "mode %s: %s" #l0 &lget #l1 5 
!done 

SEE ALSO

major-mode(2), $buffer-major-mode(5), $mode-names(5), $command-names(5), Regular Expressions.

Ref: $major-mode-ids(5) File: m5var098.5 Date: 2026/01/30

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