Emacs in Mandrake 9.1

Emacs in Mandrake 9.1

[Sapient Fridge]

The EMACS (version 21.2.93.1) installed with Mandrake 9.0 was fine but 
I'm having a couple of problems with one in Mandrake 9.1.

Anyone know the answers?

First problem is that I can't seem to work out how to cut and paste text 
from EMACS to Mozilla( version 1.3.10).  Copying the other way round 
works fine but neither ctrl-v nor the middle mouse button will past the 
text in.  This sounds more like it's maybe a Mozilla problem rather than 
EMACS?

---------------------------

The other problem is that whenever I bring up a new EMACS buffer it puts 
it into auto-fill mode which I find extremely annoying.  The problem is 
that I can't seem to stop it from doing this.  I can turn it off with:

M-x auto-fill-mode

but any new buffer created comes up in auto-fill mode again.   I've read 
through the manual and tried these in my .emacs, without luck:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-off-auto-fill)
(setq-default auto-fill-mode 0)
(auto-fill-mode 0)

New buffers *still* come up in auto-fill mode.  I've tried turning it 
off using the Options pulldown, which claims to disable it for all text 
mode buffers but that doesn't work either (it only works for the current 
buffer).  Saving those options from the pulldown puts this in the .emacs 
file:

(custom-set-variables
...
...
'(text-mode-hook (quote (turn-on-auto-fill turn-off-auto-fill 
text-mode-hook-identify)))
..
...

But that has no effect. Any ideas?  Have Mandrake somehow changed the 
auto fill mode so it can't be turned off?
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Re: Emacs in Mandrake 9.1

[Dan Anderson]

> First problem is that I can't seem to work out how to cut and paste text 
> from EMACS to Mozilla( version 1.3.10).  Copying the other way round 
> works fine but neither ctrl-v nor the middle mouse button will past the 
> text in.  This sounds more like it's maybe a Mozilla problem rather than 
> EMACS?

	That's a standard problem (or is it feature?) with Emacs under Mandrake
9.1. using the RPMs.  You can cut and paste from any X Program into
Emacs but not visa versa.  There are a couple of things you can do to
change this:

	1) I *believe* there is some LISP you can put in your .emacs to allow
cut and paste from emacs.
	2) There are 2 versions of Emacs included in the Emacs distribution. 
(No, XEmacs is not one of them).  If you install the X11 version of
Emacs Emacs will look much less Emacsish when it loads up (this may not
coexist well with regular emacs -- I forget) but you will be able to cut
and paste.

> The other problem is that whenever I bring up a new EMACS buffer it puts 
> it into auto-fill mode which I find extremely annoying.  

	Yup.  That's the new default configuration -- for all those people who
couldn't figure out how to turn auto fill mode on.  :D.  

	I'm not sure how you would turn that off but you could probably search
for your default .emacs file and change things.

-Dan