Re: how to load a minor-mode at startup

[Ian Eure]

On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:13 AM, Aurélien Bottazini wrote:

> I am an emacs beginner.
>
> I can't find a way to load one of my minor mode automatically.
> It's whitespace-mode coming from whitespace.el.
>
> in my init.el I have put:
> (require 'whitespace)
>
> I have tried to put after it something like
> (whitespace-mode)
> or (whitespace-mode t) but it does not work.
>
> I always have to activate whitespace-mode by hand with
> M-x whitespace-mode
>
> I think there is a simple way to do it but I am missing it.
> Can someone help me?

-- snip --
(whitespace-mode &optional arg)

Toggle whitespace minor mode visualization ("ws" on modeline).

If arg is null, toggle whitespace visualization.
If arg is a number greater than zero, turn on visualization;
otherwise, turn off visualization.
Only useful with a windowing system.
-- snip --

So what you want is:

(whitespace-mode 1)

- Ian