From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Default Emacs major mode switched to fundamental-mode? Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:16:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83zhzw1puu.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180614234026.GA16790@xz-mi> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529046921 8978 195.159.176.226 (15 Jun 2018 07:15:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:15:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 15 09:15:17 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fTix2-0002Dd-He for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 09:15:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44731 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTiz9-0008Ar-Np for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:17:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46438) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTiyg-0008Am-Jt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:16:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTiyb-0001L0-LF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:16:58 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58852) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTiyb-0001Kq-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:16:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4968 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fTiya-0001jW-UO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2018 03:16:53 -0400 In-reply-to: <20180614234026.GA16790@xz-mi> (message from Peter Xu on Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:40:26 +0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117170 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 07:40:26 +0800 > From: Peter Xu > > I did a recent upgrade of my Fedora 28 system, after that I noticed > that my default major mode for Emacs now becomes fundamental-mode > instead of text-mode (I believe it was before). The default in Emacs was always Fundamental mode. It's possible that Fedora changed that in their packages, but the upstream default was never Text mode. > I noticed that there is a "default-major-mode" variable that I can > setup, however it's already text-mode. While if I open another new > common window it'll still be the fundamental mode not text mode. So > how would I use this variable? Ah, so this might be the reason you thought the default was Text mode. Emacs 26 removed the default-SOMETHING variables, so setting default-major-mode now has no effect. Instead, use setq-default.