From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: fundamental mode uses?
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:54:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-8082EB.18541923032010@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 05ad24c7-51d0-4345-8705-126bd6956afb@u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com
In article
<05ad24c7-51d0-4345-8705-126bd6956afb@u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
sable <zxcv_890@hotmail.com> 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
When you're just viewing or editing plain, unstructured text. Not
programming, not word processing, just working with random "stuff".
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-23 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 19:34 fundamental mode uses? sable
2010-03-23 22:54 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2010-05-07 0:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-03-23 23:19 ` Colin S. Miller
2010-03-24 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
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