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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
To: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: View log files with emacs
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:14:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnkjh5gf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9049twi.fsf@dod.no> (Steinar Bang's message of "Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:53:33 +0100")

Steinar Bang (2015-02-24 00:53 +0300) wrote:

> I got it from MELPA and put
>  (require 'syslog-mode)
> in the .emacs file.
>
> But it doesn't open the log files in /var/log automatically, they still
> open as Fundamental, and I have to 'M-x syslog-mode RET' to get the mode
> running. 
>
> The value of the syslog-log-file-directory variable is the default
> "/var/log".  There doesn't seem to be any settings beyond that...?

John Mastro answered this question (you need to adjust your
`auto-mode-alist').  I just wanted to tell that there is no need to add
(require 'syslog-mode) to your .emacs.  Syslog-mode will be
automatically loaded.

-- 
Alex



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-24 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-17 15:37 View log files with emacs Eike
2015-02-17 15:43 ` Drew Adams
2015-02-17 18:58   ` Alex Kost
2015-02-17 20:04     ` Eike
2015-02-23 21:53     ` Steinar Bang
2015-02-23 22:17       ` John Mastro
2015-02-24 12:14       ` Alex Kost [this message]
2015-02-17 19:06 ` Filipp Gunbin
2015-02-17 20:13   ` Eike
2015-02-18  7:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2015-02-18  8:39   ` Eike

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