Re: How can I enable minor mode, always?

[Oleksandr Gavenko]

On 27.10.2010 2:49, paxxus wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I used fundamental-mode, always. It turns out that you can't add hooks to
> that mode, so I changed my default mode to text-mode, and then added this
> hook:
>
> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (interactive) (highlight-80+-mode 1)))
>
> The define-globalized-minor-mode also looks interesting, I'll try that out.
>
> I have now worked a couple of days in text-mode instead of fundamental-mode,
> and I can't detect any difference at all (which is good for what I want). Is
> there a difference other than the hook stuff?
Yes. Please refer to Emacs info: 29.7 Text Mode.

   In Text mode, only blank lines and page delimiters separate
paragraphs.  As a result, paragraphs can be indented, and adaptive
filling determines what indentation to use when filling a paragraph.
*Note Adaptive Fill::.

   Text mode defines <TAB> to run `indent-relative' (*note
Indentation::), so that you can conveniently indent a line like the
previous line.

   Text mode turns off the features concerned with comments except when
you explicitly invoke them.
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