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: How to open a file in sh-mode Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:20:38 +0200 Message-ID: <48A41506.1010806@gmail.com> References: <38b2ab8a0808140053g6261aeafmd74692199cea07eb@mail.gmail.com> <87tzdodmu0.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> <38b2ab8a0808140204s9badea6w38526cef832ceb79@mail.gmail.com> <1454386A-4592-45B7-A89E-322BB9E7F783@Web.DE> <38b2ab8a0808140402m17d776d3n7d0ee23f15cf3b2e@mail.gmail.com> 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 1218712883 8336 80.91.229.12 (14 Aug 2008 11:21:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Francis Moreau Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 14 13:22:15 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 1KTau6-00081p-4m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:22:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58023 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTat9-000100-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:21:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTasr-0000zk-A0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:20:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTasq-0000zY-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53809 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTasq-0000zV-Kc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:51657) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KTasq-00027H-A7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:20:48 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:60231 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KTaso-0001ps-42; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:20:46 +0200 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: <38b2ab8a0808140402m17d776d3n7d0ee23f15cf3b2e@mail.gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080813-0, 2008-08-13), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KTaso-0001ps-42. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KTaso-0001ps-42 9cfbd83f611fe85b8e2dd4704fc7c332 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:56604 Archived-At: Francis Moreau wrote: > yes that would be possible, but I fail to understand why I can't start > emacs in a specific > mode from the command line. > > IOW why can't I simply do ? > > $ emacs -f sh-mode FOO Because you are doing it in the wrong order. sh-mode will apply to the current buffer. Try $emacs FOO -f sh-mode But ... - do you really want to do this? It means you are using a new eamcs instance for every file.