From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: simple editor required Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:39:56 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EDCC14C.3030906@yahoo.com> References: <1K1Da.3886$7E.44637@news-server.bigpond.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054654871 31807 80.91.224.249 (3 Jun 2003 15:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 17:41:09 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NDtb-0008D7-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:40:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NDtx-000110-E7 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 11:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!mephistopheles.news.clara.net!news.clara.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054654794 10517095 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114048 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10542 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10542 Paul Edwards wrote: > "Kevin Dziulko" wrote in message news:mailman.7200.1054643007.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... >>use something like: >>(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.c$" . text-mode) auto-mode-alist)) >> >>so that visiting *.c files will land you in text-mode. > > Ok, I'll try that. Can you tell me why these... > >>>(setq inhibit-default-init 't) >>>(setq-default default-major-mode 'text-mode) >>> > > ... didn't stop this auto-file-association from happening? I basically > don't want emacs to do any junk like that, I'm not interested in its > assumptions, I'm after basic editting functions, Leave default-major-mode as is (fundamental-mode). Instead: (setq auto-mode-alist '() interpreter-mode-alist '()) > rather than by > default being launched into its weird ideas of what C code should > look like (which is probably a style used by less than 10% of > C programmers). Weird is in the eye of the beholder. -- Kevin Rodgers