Why doesn't the Aquamacs text-mode-hook I add in my .emacs file seem to run?

Question

I'm running Aquamacs 2.4 (based on Emacs 23.3.50.1) on my Macbook, OS 10.7.5. I have the following line in my .emacs file:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-visual-line-mode)

I think that this line should cause visual line mode to be enabled whenever text-mode is, but it isn't. It fails to work even when this line is the only line in my .emacs file. Why might this be?

Many thanks!

Answer 1

After some experimenting (and some TFM reading) prompted by Daimrod's comment, I learned that the problem arose from the way Aquamacs does configuration. It loads the ~/.emacs file, but that's the first file it loads of four, and my text-mode-hook was being overwritten by one of the files loaded after it

Specifically, the order (according to the Aquamacs manual section 4.3, customizing Aquamacs) is:

~/.emacs
~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/customizations.el
/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el (for all users)
~/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs Emacs/Preferences.el

My addition to the text-mode-hook was being overwritten by a line in the customizations.el file, which was why visual line mode wasn't loading.

The manual also says that users shouldn't use ~/.emacs for customizations, but the last Preferences.el file instead, so I've moved everything in .emacs to my Preferences.el. Everything now works as I expect.