From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#53538: 27.2; default-major-mode no longer honored Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 05:39:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83wningo79.fsf@gnu.org> References: <006c01d8124c$24eee4c0$6eccae40$@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26411"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 53538@debbugs.gnu.org To: "George L. 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Roman" > Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:32:04 -0500 > > % emacs -Q > C-x b *scratch* > (setq default-major-mode "text-mode") > C-x b whatever > ; Observe "fundamental" mode > C-f /tmp/foo > ; Observe "fundamental" mode > > This used to work in 25.1; fails in 26.1, 27.1, and 27.2. >From NEWS of Emacs 26: ** Some obsolete functions, variables, and faces have been removed: [...] *** All the default-FOO variables that hold the default value of the FOO variable. Use 'default-value' and 'setq-default' to access and change FOO, respectively. The exhaustive list of removed variables is: 'default-mode-line-format', 'default-header-line-format', 'default-line-spacing', 'default-abbrev-mode', 'default-ctl-arrow', 'default-truncate-lines', 'default-left-margin', 'default-tab-width', 'default-case-fold-search', 'default-left-margin-width', 'default-right-margin-width', 'default-left-fringe-width', 'default-right-fringe-width', 'default-fringes-outside-margins', 'default-scroll-bar-width', 'default-vertical-scroll-bar', 'default-indicate-empty-lines', 'default-indicate-buffer-boundaries', 'default-fringe-indicator-alist', 'default-fringe-cursor-alist', 'default-scroll-up-aggressively', 'default-scroll-down-aggressively', 'default-fill-column', 'default-cursor-type', 'default-cursor-in-non-selected-windows', 'default-buffer-file-coding-system', 'default-major-mode', and 'default-enable-multibyte-characters'. So you should use setq-default instead.