Re: [O] won't emacs kick into org mode for any file with a ".org" suffix?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Jambunathan K wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >   currently working my way thru the manual and section 1.3,
> > "Activation", explains how to add a line to your .emacs file to
> > guarantee that any ".org" file will open in org mode.
> >
> >   but as far as i can tell, as long as org-mode is installed, that
> > will happen, anyway, won't it?  i've tested it with an empty .org file
> > and i get org mode automatically.
> >
> >   isn't it worth mentioning that?  or am i misreading something?
>
> It is meant for users who are using Org with a version of Emacs that is
> released before 2007-11-09.  That is really an Emacs that is
> half-a-decade old.

  i figured that -- my point was that i think it's worth mentioning
that, with any decently current version of emacs, all of that is
already configured and you don't need to do anything.  reading that
section doesn't make that clear.

  just my $0.02 (Cdn).

rday

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