Re: fundamental mode uses?

[Kevin Rodgers]

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 "*"))))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA