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.emacs - minor mode behavior
From: |
J K |
Subject: |
.emacs - minor mode behavior |
Date: |
13 Feb 2007 13:54:53 -0800 |
User-agent: |
G2/1.0 |
I'm just learning Emacs and have recently started working on a .emacs
file for myself. I was hoping someone could answer what I think is
probably a simple question:
During customization of the mode line, I was able to turn on column-
number-mode with the following line in .emacs:
(setq column-number-mode t)
I understand that this line is setting 'column-number-mode to t
(true). I also understand that this variable is created along with
the column-number-mode function by the define-minor-mode macro in
simple.el.
I then proceeded to attempt to add the time to the mode line with the
line:
(setq display-time-mode t)
This doesn't work. I have seen that you can instead call the function
with a positive argument like so:
(display-time-mode 1)
But I don't understand why the first method doesn't work. I think the
problem is that I don't know how emacs goes from variables being set
to t/nil to actually drawing the screen, but I was hoping to avoid
digging that deep as I still am learning. Could someone please help
me to understand?
Also - I've read quite a few posts in this group, and it seems like
most folks lean toward using customize as opposed to hand
editing .emacs. Am I making things harder on myself?
Thanks for the information.
- .emacs - minor mode behavior,
J K <=