Kai =?iso-8859-15?Q?Gro=DFjohann?= writes: > > You are supposed to use (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) > instead of your setq statement. The reason is that a hook is normally > a list of functions to run. But if you use the setq statement, then > the hook will be just a single function, with no way to put in > multiple functions. > > Once upon a time, having a hook be a single function rather than a > list of functions was supported, but now I think it does not make > sense to cater for that use anymore.
Thanks. That works. You are right about "once upon a time" My .emacs file contains incremental changes to an original file that is well over a decade old. -- Allyn
