Re: fundamental mode uses?

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

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 "*"))))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA