From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to configure Emacs to autoload modes? Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:51:47 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E566733.8080905@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045850171 3874 80.91.224.249 (21 Feb 2003 17:56:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 17:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18mHOg-0000xk-00 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:55:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18mHOk-0000GK-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:55:46 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045849896 53453525 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110491 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6993 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6993 Peter Wu wrote: > Lucas wrote: >>To do that in Emacs, simply : >>(setq auto-mode-alist (append >> '(("\\.ext1$" . mode-for-ext1) >> ("\\.ext2$" . mode-for-ext2)) auto-mode-alist)) > > Yes. This method works. That is the correct way to do it. >>But I'm sure you'll get the same result by editing files.el, with being >>((((careful)) (to) '(((parenthesis))))) and "strings" that end >>anywhere". >> > > However, it does not work for me after I modified the files.el and > loaddefs.el. What could I have missed? Thanks! The fact that they are dumped into the emacs executable and therefore not loaded at run time. -- Kevin Rodgers