Function: apropos-mode

apropos-mode is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in apropos.el.gz.

Signature

(apropos-mode)

Documentation

Major mode for following hyperlinks in output of apropos commands.

- negative-argument
0 digit-argument
1 digit-argument
2 digit-argument
3 digit-argument
4 digit-argument
5 digit-argument
6 digit-argument
7 digit-argument
8 digit-argument
9 digit-argument
< beginning-of-buffer
<backtab> backward-button
> end-of-buffer
? describe-mode
C-M-i backward-button
DEL scroll-down-command
RET apropos-follow
S-SPC scroll-down-command
SPC scroll-up-command
SPC..~ undefined
TAB forward-button
g revert-buffer
h describe-mode
n apropos-next-symbol
p apropos-previous-symbol
q quit-window

In addition to any hooks its parent mode special-mode might have run, this mode runs the hook apropos-mode-hook, as the final or penultimate step during initialization.

Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 21.1.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/apropos.el.gz
(define-derived-mode apropos-mode special-mode "Apropos"
  "Major mode for following hyperlinks in output of apropos commands.

\\{apropos-mode-map}"
  (make-local-variable 'apropos--current)
  (setq-local revert-buffer-function #'apropos--revert-buffer)
  (setq-local outline-search-function #'outline-search-level
              outline-level (lambda () 1)
              outline-minor-mode-cycle t
              outline-minor-mode-highlight t
              outline-minor-mode-use-buttons 'insert))