Re: trouble turning off visual line mode

[Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>]

On Sep 6, 2:55 pm, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
> I have the following function in my .emacs
>
> ;; Want auto-fill and not visual-line-mode
> ;; Define the function here; add to hook via customize
> (defun ajg-html-visual-off-fill-on ()
>   "For html, turn OFF visual-line-mode and turn-ON auto fill"
>   (message "ckpt 1")
>   (visual-line-mode -1)
>   (message "ckpt 2")
>   (auto-fill-mode 1)
>   (message "ckpt 3")
>   )
>
> I have it put in the html-mode-hook via
>
> (custom-set-variables
> ...
>  '(html-mode-hook (quote (ajg-alter-electric-html-tag ajg-html-visual-off-fill-on)))
> ...
> )
>
> Yet when I visit an html file
> auto-fill-mode is turned on as expected but
> visual-line-mode is *not* turned off.

for minor modes, the convention is 1 is on and 0 is off.

i got a lesson of that recently from emacs devers too. it's in elisp
manual under the minor mode section too.

 Xah