Re: flyspell in messages

[Haines Brown]

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> writes:

>> I'm using gnus to read newsgroups, and I would like to have flyspell
>> run automatically whenever I write a message in reply to a posting. At
>> present, the mode bar says: (Message MML Abbrev Fill Narrow). Does
>> this mean I'm in the Message group?
>
> This means `message-mode' is the active `major-mode' and MML, Abbrev,
> Fill and Narrow are enabled minor modes.  (The so-called lighters in the
> mode-line don't need to correspond exactly to the mode name.)

> The problem is that the hook is actually named `message-mode-hook' so
>
>   (dolist (hook '(message-mode-hook ...))
>     (add-hook hook #'flyspell-mode))
>
> will do the trick.

Yes, it did, and I thank you. Not am I now in flymode without having
started it manually, but the problem of not finding american-huge file
also disappeared.