I think I found the problem. There was a file in my user directory
called .emacs.el and I disabled it. Now, emacs is starting with word
wrap selected. I'm not sure where the emacs.el file came from, maybe I
ran compile in elisp menu or something.
thanks
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 03:07:02PM -0700 16, "Dale L . Morris" <dlm@well.com> wrote:
> 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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