Re: buffer-read-only is always t at text-mode-hook time

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Some might want to know of spelling problems they can't fix---but
> never mind that---larger problem:
>
> $ cat .emacs
> (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode);adding this line makes the below useless!
> (add-hook
>  'text-mode-hook
>  (lambda ()
>    (or buffer-read-only (turn-on-auto-fill))
>    (and (not buffer-read-only)(> 88888 (buffer-size))(flyspell-mode 1))))
> $ emacs -nw --no-site-file /usr/share/emacs/21.3/etc/DOC-21.3.1
> And what do you know, despite my best efforts, there I am staring at
> "(Text Fly Fill)" in the modeline.

That is a problem.  It arises because default-major-mode is called 1
of 2 ways: either by set-buffer-major-mode (before the file's contents
have been inserted) or by normal-mode (but only if called with a nil
FIND-FILE argument, which usually doesn't happen since after-find-file
specifies it as t).

I don't know how that could be fixed without moving the call to
set-buffer-major-mode into or after find-file-no-select-1 (which
inserts the file contents into the buffer).  If that's not feasible,
should the interaction between default-major-mode and the mode's hook
functions be documented?

--
Kevin Rodgers