From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: fundamental mode uses? Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 18:54:19 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <05ad24c7-51d0-4345-8705-126bd6956afb@u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272998120 6953 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:35:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:35:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 20:35:19 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Mxi-0000yZ-Lb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:35:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51977 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Mxi-0003Bn-3r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:35:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Injection-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:54:18 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; logging-data="6783"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/QOpzh6jzuDSp1VB/jpZjK" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:z8zcUeSIDWQojpQai8KaPxKGBhw= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177554 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73044 Archived-At: In article <05ad24c7-51d0-4345-8705-126bd6956afb@u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, 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 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***