Re: beginner questions

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

JohnF <john@please.see.sig.for.email.com> writes:

> Two more questions, please. First (as also mentioned in post
> further down this thread), when I earlier said that fundamental-mode
> stops parentheses matching, I'd only actually checked <stuff>.
> Unfortunately, it still matches (stuff), [stuff], {stuff}.
> Any way to turn that all off?

M-x customize-variable RET blink-matching-paren RET


>    Secondly, I figured I could easily get that fundamental-mode, as
> well as other initializations, into .emacs by myself with a little
> googling. But I tried all of (separately and together)
>    ; -*- mode: Fundamental;-*-

    ;; -*- mode: fundamental;-*-

>    (setq-default major-mode 'fundamental-mode)
>    (setq major-mode 'fundamental-mode)

M-x customize-variable RET default-major-mode RET


>    (fundamental-mode)
> and nothing works. Still comes up in its own default mode.


You should also set auto-mode-alist

   (setq auto-mode-alist '(("." . fundamental-mode)))


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