default startup mode

default startup mode

[Baloff]

Hello

I have this line in my .emacs

(setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)	;new buffers are text mode

when I start emacs, it opens up a scratch buffer in (Lisp Interaction) 
in the mode line. shouldn't that be text mode since the line above is
in the .emacs.
if not, how do I get emacs to start up with text mode as default? or 
should I?


thanks

Re: default startup mode

[Kevin Rodgers]

Baloff wrote:
 > I have this line in my .emacs
 >
 > (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)	;new buffers are text mode
 >
 > when I start emacs, it opens up a scratch buffer in (Lisp Interaction)
 > in the mode line. shouldn't that be text mode since the line above is
 > in the .emacs.
 > if not, how do I get emacs to start up with text mode as default? or
 > should I?

,----[ C-h v initial-major-mode RET ]
| initial-major-mode's value is
| lisp-interaction-mode
|
| Documentation:
| Major mode command symbol to use for the initial *scratch* buffer.
|
| You can customize this variable.
|
| Defined in `startup'.
`----

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: default startup mode

[Christian Plate]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> ,----[ C-h v initial-major-mode RET ]
> | initial-major-mode's value is
> | lisp-interaction-mode

How do make these pretty boxes?

Regards, Christian

Re: default startup mode

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 06.08.2005 um 20:13 schrieb Christian Plate:

> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
>> ,----[ C-h v initial-major-mode RET ]
>> | initial-major-mode's value is
>> | lisp-interaction-mode
>
> How do make these pretty boxes?
>

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Re: default startup mode

[Jochen Küpper]

Christian Plate <cplate-S0/GAf8tV78@public.gmane.org> writes:

> How do make these pretty boxes?

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Re: default startup mode

[Baloff]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

> Baloff wrote:
> 
>  > I have this line in my .emacs
>  >
>  > (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode)	;new buffers are text mode
>  >
>  > when I start emacs, it opens up a scratch buffer in (Lisp Interaction)
>  > in the mode line. shouldn't that be text mode since the line above is
>  > in the .emacs.
>  > if not, how do I get emacs to start up with text mode as default? or
>  > should I?
> 
> ,----[ C-h v initial-major-mode RET ]
> | initial-major-mode's value is
> | lisp-interaction-mode
> |
> | Documentation:
> | Major mode command symbol to use for the initial *scratch* buffer.
> |
> | You can customize this variable.
> |
> | Defined in `startup'.
> `----
> 
> -- 
> Kevin Rodgers

thanks, 
I went looking for info about startup and found

Initial Options
===============

...
   Some initial options affect the loading of init files.  The normal
actions of Emacs are to first load `site-start.el' if it exists, then
your own init file `~/.emacs' if it exists, and finally `default.el' if
it exists; certain options prevent loading of some of these files or
substitute other files for them.


how do I find out if "in my case" all 3 files started up or any did
not.

Re: default startup mode

[Kevin Rodgers]

Baloff wrote:
 > I went looking for info about startup and found
 >
 > Initial Options
 > ===============
 >
 > ...
 >    Some initial options affect the loading of init files.  The normal
 > actions of Emacs are to first load `site-start.el' if it exists, then
 > your own init file `~/.emacs' if it exists, and finally `default.el' if
 > it exists; certain options prevent loading of some of these files or
 > substitute other files for them.
 >
 >
 > how do I find out if "in my case" all 3 files started up or any did
 > not.

If you look at the code in startup.el, you can see that user-init-file
is set to nil if ~/.emacs was not loaded, otherwise it should be the
full path to the file.  Emacs respects the inhibit-default-init file,
unless it it's non-nil the default library should have been loaded.
Similarly, unless site-run-file is nil the site-start library should
have been loaded.

However it is possible that any of those files was partially loaded,
then aborted due to errors.  I don't know if it's possible to detect
those cases after the fact, but if you're concerned you should start
emacs with the --debug-init option.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers