From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Doing things only in a particular mode Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:54:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87fv38o4di.fsf@yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1440597299 19817 80.91.229.3 (26 Aug 2015 13:54:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:54:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 26 15:54:51 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUbA9-0007VQ-QU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:54:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38409 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUbA9-0001JD-16 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:54:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44861) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUb9y-0001J7-Fl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:54:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUb9u-0001Hz-DL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:54:38 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39864) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUb9u-0001H3-5y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 09:54:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUb9s-0007Gc-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:54:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-254-147.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.254.147]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:54:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-254-147.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:54:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-254-147.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q9U9NHEWi7IOY8AqN3/yHFFzDOA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106853 Archived-At: >> Note that I use `-1` as the argument to `visual-line-mode`. I do the same and recommend others do that as well. >> IIRC an argument of 0 would actually activate the mode. > That is wrong, Indeed, it's wrong. But whether 0 is negative or positive or both or neither is a long discussion, so by using -1 you completely side step the issue. Stefan