Re: how to load a minor-mode at startup

[Kevin Rodgers]

Aurélien Bottazini wrote:
>  I am an emacs beginner.
>
> I can't find a way to load one of my minor mode automatically.
> It's whitespace-mode coming from whitespace.el.
>
> in my init.el I have put:
> (require 'whitespace)
>
> I have tried to put after it something like
> (whitespace-mode)
> or (whitespace-mode t) but it does not work.
>
> I always have to activate whitespace-mode by hand with
>  M-x whitespace-mode

What version of Emacs are you using?  In Emacs 22.3, whitespace.el does
not define a function called whitespace-mode.  It does define a command
called whitespace-global-mode, which sounds like what you want.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA