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Re: fundamental mode uses?


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: fundamental mode uses?
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:43:16 -0000
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In article 
<05ad24c7-51d0-4345-8705-126bd6956afb@u9g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>,
 sable <zxcv_890@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Just a curiosity: As a relative newcomer to Emacs, I'm wondering if
> anyone ever actually uses Fundamental mode in the course of their
> work? My impression from reading the literature is that it's kind of a
> "baseline" mode that contains the functions, bindings, variables,
> etc., in their default form. But I couldn't find anything in the
> manual related to possible/appropriate uses of this mode. It seems
> like there's a specialized mode to cover all the main programming and
> markup languages, plus your basic text and word-processing modes, so
> when, if ever, would you use Fundamental mode?
> Thanks,
> Jeffery

When you're just viewing or editing plain, unstructured text.  Not 
programming, not word processing, just working with random "stuff".

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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