how to load a minor-mode at startup

how to load a minor-mode at startup

[Aurélien Bottazini]

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 I am an emacs beginner.

I can't find a way to load one of my minor mode automatically.
It's whitespace-mode coming from whitespace.el.

in my init.el I have put:
(require 'whitespace)

I have tried to put after it something like
(whitespace-mode)
or (whitespace-mode t) but it does not work.

I always have to activate whitespace-mode by hand with
 M-x whitespace-mode

I think there is a simple way to do it but I am missing it.
Can someone help me?

Thanks!

Aurélien

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Re: how to load a minor-mode at startup

[Ian Eure]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Aurélien Bottazini wrote:

> I am an emacs beginner.
>
> I can't find a way to load one of my minor mode automatically.
> It's whitespace-mode coming from whitespace.el.
>
> in my init.el I have put:
> (require 'whitespace)
>
> I have tried to put after it something like
> (whitespace-mode)
> or (whitespace-mode t) but it does not work.
>
> I always have to activate whitespace-mode by hand with
> M-x whitespace-mode
>
> I think there is a simple way to do it but I am missing it.
> Can someone help me?
>

-- snip --
(whitespace-mode &optional arg)

Toggle whitespace minor mode visualization ("ws" on modeline).

If arg is null, toggle whitespace visualization.
If arg is a number greater than zero, turn on visualization;
otherwise, turn off visualization.
Only useful with a windowing system.
-- snip --

So what you want is:

(whitespace-mode 1)

- Ian

Re: how to load a minor-mode at startup

[Kevin Rodgers]

Aurélien Bottazini wrote:
>  I am an emacs beginner.
> 
> I can't find a way to load one of my minor mode automatically.
> It's whitespace-mode coming from whitespace.el.
> 
> in my init.el I have put:
> (require 'whitespace)
> 
> I have tried to put after it something like
> (whitespace-mode)
> or (whitespace-mode t) but it does not work.
> 
> I always have to activate whitespace-mode by hand with
>  M-x whitespace-mode

In which buffer(s) do you want to use whitespace mode?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: how to load a minor-mode at startup

[Kevin Rodgers]

Aurélien Bottazini wrote:
>  I am an emacs beginner.
> 
> I can't find a way to load one of my minor mode automatically.
> It's whitespace-mode coming from whitespace.el.
> 
> in my init.el I have put:
> (require 'whitespace)
> 
> I have tried to put after it something like
> (whitespace-mode)
> or (whitespace-mode t) but it does not work.
> 
> I always have to activate whitespace-mode by hand with
>  M-x whitespace-mode

What version of Emacs are you using?  In Emacs 22.3, whitespace.el does
not define a function called whitespace-mode.  It does define a command
called whitespace-global-mode, which sounds like what you want.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA