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From: gildea@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Default editor switches in .mh_profile
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Date: 13 Mar 91 15:12:57 GMT
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    Does anyone know of a way to provide startup arguments to the Editor:
    specified in your .mh_profile?
    
    For instance,I use the following:
    Editor: emacs
    
    and would like it to start up in text mode automatically. If I put
    Editor: emacs -f text-mode


As an alternative approach, you could have Emacs use Text mode when it
sees a file that probably came from MH.  Something like this might do
it for you:

(setq auto-mode-alist
      (append '(("/[0-9]+$" . text-mode))
	      auto-mode-alist))

This uses Text mode for files with names composed entirely of digits.
I use this test, but you can change the template to suit you.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium