Re: .emacs startup file

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

"Dale L . Morris" <dlm@well.com> writes:
> When I start up emacs, word wrap is not turned on. If I write into the
> *scratch* buffer, it doesn't word wrap. If I check the help/options
> menu at the top of the window, auto-fill word wrap in text modes is
> not selected.
> However, if I do M-x eval-current-buffer then it turns on wordwrap in
> the help/options 'auto-fill word wrap in text modes' box. So.. my
> assumption is that emacs somehow isn't reading the .emacs startup file
> correctly. However, I am using emacs as an email editor with post.el
> and that may be influencing the behavior somehow. Attached is the
> whole .emacs text file. 
>
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 04:39:21PM -0600 16, Gary Hennigan <glhenni@sandia.gov> wrote:
> > What exactly IS happening? Does the scratch buffer still come up in
> > "Lisp Interaction" mode? Is it in auto-fill minor mode?
> > 
> > I assume you're using GNU Emacs and not XEmacs? Certainly I've used a
> > slight variation of what you have above in XEmacs and it works
> > perfectly. Here's mine:
> > 
> > (setq initial-major-mode 'text-mode)
> > (setq text-mode-hook
> >       '(lambda ()
> > 	 (turn-on-auto-fill)))
> > 
> [2 .emacs <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> :;;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)
> 
> 
> 
> ;; ;;; Email
>  (server-start)
>  (load "/home/dlm/.mutt/post.el")
>  (defadvice server-process-filter (after post-mode-message first activate)
>     "If the buffer is in post mode, overwrite the server-edit
>     message with a post-save-current-buffer-and-exit message."
>     (if (eq major-mode 'post-mode)
>         (message
>          (substitute-command-keys "Type \\[describe-mode] for help composing; \\[post-save-current-buffer-and-exit] when done."))))
>  ; This is also needed to see the magic message.  Set to a higher
>  ; number if you have a faster computer or read slower than me.
>  '(font-lock-verbose 1000)
> ; (setq server-temp-file-regexp "mutt-")
>  (add-hook 'server-switch-hook 
>          (function (lambda()
>                      (cond ((string-match "Post" mode-name)
>                             (post-goto-body))))))

Okay, no specific help, but a general suggestion on how to go about
finding this kind of problem. I would suggest commenting out all but
the first two lines to see what happens. Perhaps some of the "post.el"
stuff is causing some later action to reverse the initial-major-mode
and auto-fill settings.

Gary