Re: simple editor required

[Kevin Rodgers]

Paul Edwards wrote:

> "Kevin Dziulko" <dziulko@klaatu.canisius.edu> wrote in message 
> news:mailman.7200.1054643007.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> > use something like:
> > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.c$" . text-mode) auto-mode-alist))
> >
> > so that visiting *.c files will land you in text-mode.
>
> Ok, I'll try that.  Can you tell me why these...
>
> > > (setq inhibit-default-init 't)
> > > (setq-default default-major-mode 'text-mode)
>
> ... didn't stop this auto-file-association from happening?  I basically
> don't want emacs to do any junk like that, I'm not interested in its
> assumptions, I'm after basic editting functions,


Leave default-major-mode as is (fundamental-mode).  Instead:

(setq auto-mode-alist '()
      interpreter-mode-alist '())

> rather than by
> default being launched into its weird ideas of what C code should
> look like (which is probably a style used by less than 10% of
> C programmers).

Weird is in the eye of the beholder.


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