.emacs startup file

["Dale L . Morris" <dlm@well.com>]

My apologies if I'm not posting this to the right list, I've already
tried the gnu emacs help newsgroup, with no success. I'm thinking it's
a specific debian configuration problem..

I'm having trouble getting emacs to startup with parameters specified
in .emacs. Specifically, I want it to start in text mode, with word
wrap turned on. I have the following lines in my .emacs file:
:;;Emacs configuration file

(setq initial-major-mode 'text-mode)
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

(custom-set-variables
 '(make-backup-files nil))
(custom-set-faces)

Should do what it takes right? but, it's not working. Any suggestions?

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