fundamental mode uses?

fundamental mode uses?

[sable]

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

Re: fundamental mode uses?

[Barry Margolin]

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".

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Re: fundamental mode uses?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Barry Margolin wrote:
> 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".

I even keep a dedicated buffer around for that:

(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Fundamental*")
   (unless (eq major-mode 'fundamental-mode)
     (rename-buffer (concat "*" mode-name "*"))))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: fundamental mode uses?

[Colin S. Miller]

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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Re: fundamental mode uses?

[Stefan Monnier]

> when, if ever, would you use Fundamental mode?

Whenever I haven't written the corresponding major mode yet.


        Stefan "fundamental-mode is like Java's `Object' type"