Samuel W Flint <swflint@flintfam.org> writes:

> On 10 Aug 2014, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> [Edited for the sake of brevity]
>
>>>> How can I have a command auto-run when a file is opened from
>>>> 'desktop recovery' please? I want to auto-run "M-x linum-mode" when
>>>> I open my daily journal, which stays open all the time. Running that
>>>> command will switch off linum-mode for that file, which may stop
>>>> "file-rot" that I have observed in the past. This can, at present,
>>>> only be resolved by shutting down emacs for half an hour or so, and
>>>> then restarting it, and normal functionality will have been
>>>> restored.
>
> Have you considered using a hook?  That is what they are for, and
> generally, I’ve found that linum mode in an org file can be annoying, so
> in my init file I have =(add-hook ‘org-mode-hook #’(lambda ()
> (linum-mode -1)))=, and, while I have Linum on globally, this disables
> it for all org mode files.
>
Thanks for this Sam, it is now working beautifully.

Sharon.
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