Question

I’ve been learning emacs and lisp right, so I’m sure I’m missing something, but I’m trying to get highlight-indentation to work when I start emacs.

I’ve got the highlight-indentation.el file in my emacs path and after startup, I can do

M-x highlight-indentation

and all works well, but how do I get this to work on startup. I thought putting

(highlight-indentation)

in my .emacs file would work, but it didn’t. Is this because highlight-indentation is an interactive function?

Answer 1

The function is only applied to the current buffer. I would recommend using a hook like the following. Functions added to major mode hooks are executed when the major mode is enabled for a particular buffer.

(defun my-emacs-lisp-mode-hook ()
  (highlight-indentation))
(add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'my-emacs-lisp-mode-hook)