"Dale L . Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> 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
