* Difference in major mode autoload between 21.3.x and 22.0.x?
@ 2005-10-12 15:15 Markus Nißl
2005-10-12 15:24 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
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From: Markus Nißl @ 2005-10-12 15:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi!
Using Emacs 21.3.1, the following two lines in my .emacs worked fine:
(autoload 'xsl-mode "xslide" "Major mode for XSL stylesheets." t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.xsl$" . xsl-mode) auto-mode-alist))
Using Emacs 22.0.50.1, xsl-mode is only loaded automatically when
I create a new xsl file. When I open an existing xsl file, xml
mode is loaded instead.
Anybody an idea what's wrong?
Thanks in advance,
Markus
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* Re: Difference in major mode autoload between 21.3.x and 22.0.x?
2005-10-12 15:15 Difference in major mode autoload between 21.3.x and 22.0.x? Markus Nißl
@ 2005-10-12 15:24 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
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From: Slawomir Nowaczyk @ 2005-10-12 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:15:53 +0200
Markus Nißl <mnissl@arcor.de> wrote:
#> Using Emacs 22.0.50.1, xsl-mode is only loaded automatically when
#> I create a new xsl file. When I open an existing xsl file, xml
#> mode is loaded instead.
#> Anybody an idea what's wrong?
From the documentation of auto-mode-alist:
See also `interpreter-mode-alist', which detects executable script modes
based on the interpreters they specify to run,
and `magic-mode-alist', which determines modes based on file contents.
I suppose you should take a look at magic-mode-alist
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* Re: Difference in major mode autoload between 21.3.x and 22.0.x?
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@ 2005-10-14 8:08 ` Markus Nißl
2005-10-14 12:20 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
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From: Markus Nißl @ 2005-10-14 8:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
Slawomir Nowaczyk wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:15:53 +0200
> Markus Nißl <mnissl@arcor.de> wrote:
>
> #> Using Emacs 22.0.50.1, xsl-mode is only loaded automatically when
> #> I create a new xsl file. When I open an existing xsl file, xml
> #> mode is loaded instead.
>
> #> Anybody an idea what's wrong?
>
> From the documentation of auto-mode-alist:
>
> See also `interpreter-mode-alist', which detects executable script modes
> based on the interpreters they specify to run,
> and `magic-mode-alist', which determines modes based on file contents.
>
> I suppose you should take a look at magic-mode-alist
Thank you very much for your information. I now see where the
different behaviour comes from.
By far, I'm no Emacs expert ... so, can you give me a hint in
which way I have to modify magic-mode-alist so that xsl-mode is
being started whenever a file with the extension ".xsl" is loaded?
In 21.x, it was a breeze for an elisp novice to copy those two
lines and to adjust them to my needs.
Thank you very much in advance,
Markus
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* Re: Difference in major mode autoload between 21.3.x and 22.0.x?
2005-10-14 8:08 ` Markus Nißl
@ 2005-10-14 12:20 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
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From: Slawomir Nowaczyk @ 2005-10-14 12:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:08:25 +0200
Markus Nißl <mnissl@arcor.de> wrote:
#> Slawomir Nowaczyk wrote:
#> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:15:53 +0200
#> > Markus Nißl <mnissl@arcor.de> wrote:
#> >
#> > #> Using Emacs 22.0.50.1, xsl-mode is only loaded automatically when
#> > #> I create a new xsl file. When I open an existing xsl file, xml
#> > #> mode is loaded instead.
#> > I suppose you should take a look at magic-mode-alist
#> Thank you very much for your information. I now see where the
#> different behaviour comes from.
A question to the rest of the list: I have seen this being asked a
couple of time recently... maybe it would make sense to change default
value of magic-mode-alist to not include "xml-mode" and "html-mode" ?
It seems to me that magic-mode-alist makes sense if there is only one
mode for visiting certain type of files... and there seems to be a
couple different modes commonly used for xml and html.
#> By far, I'm no Emacs expert ... so, can you give me a hint in
#> which way I have to modify magic-mode-alist so that xsl-mode is
#> being started whenever a file with the extension ".xsl" is loaded?
Well, try this (not tested):
(push magic-mode-alist '("<\\?xml " . nil))
I am sure those better versed in elisp can suggest a nicer solution :)
#> In 21.x, it was a breeze for an elisp novice to copy those two
#> lines and to adjust them to my needs.
I agree, auto-mode-alist is much easier to customise.
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Slawomir Nowaczyk
( slawomir.nowaczyk.847@student.lu.se )
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* Re: Difference in major mode autoload between 21.3.x and 22.0.x?
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@ 2005-10-14 13:02 ` Markus Nißl
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From: Markus Nißl @ 2005-10-14 13:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
Slawomir Nowaczyk wrote:
> A question to the rest of the list: I have seen this being
> asked a couple of time recently... maybe it would make sense to
> change default value of magic-mode-alist to not include
> "xml-mode" and "html-mode" ?
Yeap, could make sense ... the problem is that an xsl file starts
the very same way an xml file does ...
> #> By far, I'm no Emacs expert ... so, can you give me a hint
> #> in which way I have to modify magic-mode-alist so that
> #> xsl-mode is being started whenever a file with the extension
> #> ".xsl" is loaded?
>
> Well, try this (not tested):
>
> (push magic-mode-alist '("<\\?xml " . nil))
Looks fine to me, but nope, this line results into the following
error:
Wrong type argument: symbolp, (quote (<\?xml ))
But I simply altered the line a bit using "setq" instead of "push":
(autoload 'xsl-mode "xslide" "Major mode for XSL stylesheets." t)
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.xsl$" . xsl-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq magic-mode-alist (cons '("<\\?xml " . nil) magic-mode-alist))
> I am sure those better versed in elisp can suggest a nicer solution :)
Well, I'm fine with the solution above. Elisp is pretty weird to
code if you come from C++ or Java ...
> #> In 21.x, it was a breeze for an elisp novice to copy those two
> #> lines and to adjust them to my needs.
>
> I agree, auto-mode-alist is much easier to customise.
Yeap, although magic-mode-alist is certainly a nice
"intelli-sense" feature ;-)
Thanks a bunch for your help,
Markus
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