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From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
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Subject: Re: Modifying local Keymaps and other things (Long, sorry)
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 11:40:03 EDT
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Problems 1 and 2 (tailor major modes) are apt to be handled through
mode hooks.  For example, upon entering text mode, the function
text-mode-hook, if it exists and is a defun, is called.  This could
rebind keys per the user's wishes.  This would solve your problems
both for dired and Help buffers.  Help buffers come up in the default
major mode; it should call the *-hook function, which could check for
a buffer name of the *Help* form (or whatever) and go into view mode.
Another option is to set you default-major-mode to view mode, but I
doubt this will do the right thing for you.

Since dired-mode and fundamental-mode probably don't call hooks, they
should be redefined to do this a la the style of, say, text mode.
Then you could do your local tailoring inside the hook functions.

Problem 3 can be easily coped with by adding to your .emacs:

  (defun my-dired ()
    (dired "."))

and then aliasing dired to

  emacs -e my-dired

This will start you in a dired of the current WD.

/jr
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