Re: Fundamental mode question

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From: Roland McGrath
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 1990 15:12

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In article <Nov.14.11.34.03.1990.13497@yoko.rutgers.edu> joshua@yoko.rutgers.edu (Josh Mittleman) writes:
   I've never found a way.  One way around the problem (which I've not
   tested) would be to change the value of default-major-mode.  

This is probably what you actually want.  You can redefine fundamental-mode if
you want to, but it's a bad idea.  Fundamental mode exists to be completely
empty.  Other modes do (fundamental-mode) first to clear everything out and get
to a vanilla state.  If you just want some other things done in buffers which
have no specific mode, change default-major-mode.  I use:
  (setq default-major-mode 'indented-text-mode)
--
	Roland McGrath
	Free Software Foundation, Inc.
roland@ai.mit.edu, uunet!ai.mit.edu!roland

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