Re: auto-fill-mode

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From: Pharrfugnugen
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:12

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: >>>>> On Tue, 26 Jan 93 04:56:34 GMT,
: >>>>> cc2955@sarah.albany.edu (Charley Chen) said:
: 
:Charley> I ask before about how to get auto-fill-mode on whenever I use
:Charley> emacs and lots of people reponded and all the reponse were the same
: 
:Charley>    (setq text-mode-hook
:Charley>          '(lambda () (auto-fill-mode 1)))
: 
:Charley> but from what I can see I need to be in text mode or something.
:Charley> Usually get the (Fundamental) mode and I still do, even after
:Charley> putting in that thing in my .emacs.  My question now is that do I
:Charley> have to compile it or do I need something that will switch me to
:Charley> text mode right away?  Thanks.

Just add the following to your .emacs file to make emacs start up in
text mode right away:

(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)

-Matt

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