Re: emacs mode line suggestions

[Kevin Rodgers]

Ian Eure wrote:
> I think the only time I manually switch modes is when I need to use 
> *scratch* for something, e.g. I'll switch to emacs-lisp-mode if I want 
> to eval some code, sql-mode if I want to write a query, etc.
>
> I should probably write some functions to give me *lisp* and *SQL* 
> buffers with the appropriate mode.

I leave initial-major-mode set to lisp-interaction-mode, so *scratch* is
my Emacs Lisp buffer.  And I've got this in my ~/.emacs:

(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Text*")
  (text-mode))

(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*SQL*")
  (sql-mode))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA