Re: fundamental mode uses?

["Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>]

sable wrote:
> Just a curiosity: As a relative newcomer to Emacs, I'm wondering if
> anyone ever actually uses Fundamental mode in the course of their
> work? My impression from reading the literature is that it's kind of a
> "baseline" mode that contains the functions, bindings, variables,
> etc., in their default form. But I couldn't find anything in the
> manual related to possible/appropriate uses of this mode. It seems
> like there's a specialized mode to cover all the main programming and
> markup languages, plus your basic text and word-processing modes, so
> when, if ever, would you use Fundamental mode?
> Thanks,
> Jeffery

If you've got flyspell-mode autoenabled for text-mode, then opening
some non language text files (logs, CSVs, hex dumps etc) in fundamental-mode
will stop flyspell-mode from going mad. Of course, you could just
toggle flyspell-mode of again....

HTH,
Colin S. Miller


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