Can't activate auto-fill-mode for fundamental (default) mode *from .emacs*...

Can't activate auto-fill-mode for fundamental (default) mode *from .emacs*...

[Christian Seberino]

I cannot seem to get .emacs to turn on auto-fill-mode for default/fundamental
mode?... Please help...

This doesn't make emacs default to auto-fill-mode...

   (add-hook 'fundamental-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

Neither does this in .emacs help either....


   (turn-on-auto-fill)

Nor this...

   (auto-fill-mode)

For cryin' out loud! Why isn't it going on??

IT WORKS WITHIN EMACS IF I DO "M-x auto-fill-mode"!?!?!

Ahhhh!!!

Chris

Re: Can't activate auto-fill-mode for fundamental (default) mode *from .emacs*...

[Jesper Harder]

seberino@spawar.navy.mil (Christian Seberino) writes:

> I cannot seem to get .emacs to turn on auto-fill-mode for
> default/fundamental mode?... Please help...
>
> This doesn't make emacs default to auto-fill-mode...
>
>    (add-hook 'fundamental-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill)

This doesn't work because fundamental mode does not have any hooks:

     The `fundamental-mode' function does _not_ run any hooks; you're
     not supposed to customize it.  (If you want Emacs to behave
     differently in Fundamental mode, change the _global_ state of
     Emacs.)

> Neither does this in .emacs help either....
>
>    (turn-on-auto-fill)

No, I think the point of fundamental mode is that every option and
command has the default non-customized behaviour.  So if you want auto
fill, you should probably use some other mode than fundamental mode --
maybe change the option `default-major-mode' to something else.