From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-mode-alist - recognize prefix instead of sufix? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:46:25 +0100 Message-ID: <47E1A5D1.7030902@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205970413 26525 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2008 23:46:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:46:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Christian Herenz Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 20 00:47:23 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jc80A-0001ju-7d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:47:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jc7zZ-0001jm-Tn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:46:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jc7zJ-0001jX-MR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:46:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jc7zI-0001j5-J7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:46:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jc7zI-0001iu-8v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jc7zH-0004M0-RA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:46:28 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:62667 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Jc7zG-0005n4-4Q; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:46:26 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080319-0, 2008-03-19), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Jc7zG-0005n4-4Q. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1Jc7zG-0005n4-4Q 76e240c18d94168995719279d8c8b4ae X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52551 Archived-At: Christian Herenz wrote: > Hi, > > is it possible to use a major-mode on files with a certain prefix? > I know that I can do something like this: > > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.html$" . > html-helper-mode)auto-mode-alist)) > > But what about opening files like foo.comments, foo.examples and so on > in a special mode? I never tried, but from the documentation it looks perfectly possible. Have you tried to use a regexp like "^foo\." ?