From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: fundamental mode uses? Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 18:18:24 -0600 Message-ID: References: <05ad24c7-51d0-4345-8705-126bd6956afb@u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273191628 4103 80.91.229.12 (7 May 2010 00:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 00:20:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 07 02:20:27 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 1OABIo-00040k-S3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 02:20:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49017 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OABIo-0003Er-At for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 20:20:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1OABHm-0002o8-Ti for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 20:19:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54172 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OABHd-0002Za-DA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 20:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OABGv-0008D5-G8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 20:19:13 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:59306) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OABGv-0008Cl-6f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 20:18:29 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OABGt-0003Px-13 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 02:18:27 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2010 02:18:27 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 May 2010 02:18:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:73537 Archived-At: Barry Margolin wrote: > 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". 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