From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: default startup mode Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:19:44 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87pssubq82.fsf@wash.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123169685 11145 80.91.229.2 (4 Aug 2005 15:34:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 04 17:34:36 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0hjS-0002oQ-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:34:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0hmG-0005xx-ED for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:37:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0hjb-0004lk-0N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E0hjS-0004hw-Bm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:34:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0hjQ-0004gS-SR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:34:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1E0hnW-0003sy-S0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E0hXd-0000px-PT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:21:53 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:21:53 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:21:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <87pssubq82.fsf@wash.edu> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28411 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28411 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