Re: How to apply a minor mode to all buffers

[Leonardo Boiko <leoboiko@gmail.com>]

At Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:42:49 -0700,
Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> > find-file-hook won’t apply to buffers unrelated to files, though.
> > after-change-major-mode-hook almost does the trick, but it still
> > doesn’t get fundamental-mode.
> Do you do much editing in Fundamental mode?

I do some editing in buffers not related to text-mode.  And yes, I do
some editing in Fundamental (conf files still without specific modes,
for example, or certain buffers open by elisp apps (erc, wanderlust…)).

> You may still want to show it even if you can't delete it:

Maybe, but I don’t think I want this.  All those red spaces are
distracting, and if I can’t edit the buffer I can’t do anything about
it anyway.

> How about:
> (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'delete/show-trailing-whitespace)
> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'delete/show-trailing-whitespace)
> (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)

This would turn on my text-mode customizations (auto-fill,
typopunct-mode etc.) when editing conf files, which I don’t want.

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