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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: fundamental mode uses? |
Date: | Thu, 06 May 2010 18:18:24 -0600 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Macintosh/20100228) |
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, JefferyWhen 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 "*")))) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA
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