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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > -- "Make voyages, attempt them, there's nothing else." --Tennessee Williams