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Subject: Problem with default-major-mode in V18?
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Date: Sat, 18-Oct-86 00:19:05 EDT
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From: James J Dempsey <jjd@cc5.bbn.com>


Several people on my machine like new files and buffers to be created
in text-mode by default instead of fundamental-mode.

In V17, they used to do (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode).  In V18,
this doesn't seem to work.  I have also tried 
(setq-default major-mode 'text-mode) and 
(setq-default default-major-mode 'text-mode) but new buffers still
seem to be created with fundamental-mode.

Am I doing something wrong?  Has something changed in V18 to cause
this to not work?  I couldn't find anything in the etc/NEWS file.

Particulars: My machine is a Vax 11/785 running Ultrix 1.2.  The
version of emacs is 18.25.

Thanks.

		--Jim Dempsey--
		BBN Communications, Inc.
		Cambridge, MA

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