Re: turn on flyspell mode permanently in .emacs

[kevmitch@gmail.com]

Thanks for the advice. It would seem however that neither suggestion
worked. I took a look in my Messages buffer and found that it looks
like flyspell is in fact starting using the .emacs file above, but that
it just isn't taking effect for some reason. This remains to be the
case if I try the lambda function suggested by Kevin. However, using
the text-mode-hook without  (flyspell-mode 1) doesn't turn it on at
all. Here is my message buffer with the same .emacs file. It looks like
flyspell loads fine at the end, but unfortunately seems to have no
effect. Oddly enough, when I manually turn on flyspell-mode after
starting emacs with the (flyspell-mode 1) in my .emacs file, nothing
further is added to the message buffer (whereas it would be if I hadn't
already started flyspell-mode in the .emacs file). In spite of this
message silence, flyspell-mode does seem to magically start working.

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Sebastian P. Luque wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2006 17:23:55 -0700,
> kevmitch@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > So apparently, I'm doing something extremely stupid.  Flyspell works
> > great if I type "M-x flyspell-mode RET", but that's not good enough. I
> > want it to be on all the time in every major mode automatically unless I
> > explicitly disable it. So I tried just about every combination of all
> > the relevant lines in my .emacs file to no avail. My emacs starts up
> > fine, but no flyspell-mode with out having to manually issue the
> > command. Can any kind soul out there please direct me in what it is I'm
> > doing wrong. Below are my .emacs and site-start.el files.
>
> Did you try adding turn-on-flyspell to text-mode-hook?  That's what I use,
> and it's on for almost every mode, as I think this hook is run by them.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Seb