Re: .emacs startup file
Gary, just tried commenting out all but the first two lines and the
behavior is the same. Only works properly when I manually tell emacs
to evaluate current buffer.
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 05:10:05PM -0600 18, Gary Hennigan <glhenni@sandia.gov> wrote:
> "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
>
>
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