jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson) (08/17/87)
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
jr@bbn.com or jr@bbnccv.uucp
Without life, there wouldn't be chemical companies.drw@cullvax.UUCP (08/18/87)
dmjones@athena.mit.edu (David M. Jones) writes: > Problem 1: (the one with the messy solution) > > I wanted to make the following modifications to the dired-mode keymap: > > (define-key dired-mode-map " " 'scroll-up) > (define-key dired-mode-map "b" 'scroll-down) Well, you can load the dired package first: (load "dired" nil t) and then make the changes. (The additional arguments to load are to make it not print any status messages, so you can start emacs with "emacs &" and have it finish loading without hanging for tty output.) I get stuck doing things like this, because I want to modify some of the functions in some of the packages. A better way would be to have a "load-hook" facility -- you can declare in your .emacs file code you want executed after a specified file is loaded. This would allow you to make all sorts of customizations of existing modes. > Problem 3: > > I have the following alias, which works fine. (I'm using the c-shell, > which may be pertinent information.) > > alias email 'emacs -e mail > > I would like a similar alias for dired. However, emacs -e dired > doesn't work, either because dired is interactive or because dired > wants an argument. Well, you can define a function: (defun dired-here () (interactive) (dired ".")) Then you can start up emacs with "emacs -f dired-here" to have dired invoked automatically. I don't know if you can have a function pick up command line arguments, but if you hack around with the variable 'command-line-args', you might be able to get them. (See startup.el.) Dale -- Dale Worley Cullinet Software ARPA: cullvax!drw@eddie.mit.edu UUCP: ...!seismo!harvard!mit-eddie!cullvax!drw OS/2: Yesterday's software tomorrow Nuclear war? There goes my career!