How can I get XEmacs to come up in text/auto-fill mode by default?
Try the following lisp in your `.emacs’: (setq default-major-mode ‘text-mode) (setq text-mode-hook ‘turn-on-auto-fill) WARNING: note that changing the value of default-major-mode from fundamental-mode can break a large amount of built-in code that expects newly created buffers to be in fundamental-mode. (Changing from fundamental-mode to text-mode might not wreak too much havoc, but changing to something more exotic like a lisp-mode would break many Emacs packages). Note that Emacs by default starts up in buffer *scratch* in initial-major-mode, which defaults to lisp-interaction-mode. Thus adding the following form to your Emacs init file will cause the initial *scratch* buffer to be put into auto-fill’ed text-mode: (setq initial-major-mode (lambda () (text-mode) (turn-on-auto-fill))) Note that after your init file is loaded, if inhibit-startup-message is nil (the default) and the startup buffer is *scratch* then the startup message will be inserted into *scratch*; it will be removed a
