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seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:

> I cannot seem to get .emacs to turn on auto-fill-mode for
> default/fundamental mode?... Please help...
>
> This doesn't make emacs default to auto-fill-mode...
>
>    (add-hook 'fundamental-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

This doesn't work because fundamental mode does not have any hooks:

     The `fundamental-mode' function does _not_ run any hooks; you're
     not supposed to customize it.  (If you want Emacs to behave
     differently in Fundamental mode, change the _global_ state of
     Emacs.)

> Neither does this in .emacs help either....
>
>    (turn-on-auto-fill)

No, I think the point of fundamental mode is that every option and
command has the default non-customized behaviour.  So if you want auto
fill, you should probably use some other mode than fundamental mode --
maybe change the option `default-major-mode' to something else.