From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Decebal Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Error on http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Auto-Major-Mode.html Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:09:44 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <87fe2f1b-cfff-4976-89d6-760a9f6a7361@k41g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> References: <3f5924ac-1b17-4a12-82a0-d84340ede46c@v13g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227696135 8436 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2008 10:42:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:42:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 26 11:43:16 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 1L5HrW-0003uI-NN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:43:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L5HqN-0005Wz-1r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:42:03 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k41g2000yqn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.158.139.99 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1227694184 3574 127.0.0.1 (26 Nov 2008 10:09:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:09:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k41g2000yqn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.158.139.99; posting-account=K-cdeAoAAAD_0d505kUtHXJaT5LFIu-3 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; nl; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008102920 Firefox/3.0.4,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 proxy-26:8080 (squid/2.5.STABLE8), 1.0 netcache-1 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.5), 1.0 netcache-1 (NetCache NetApp/6.0.5), 1.1 cache-2:80 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164794 comp.emacs:97398 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:60125 Archived-At: On Nov 25, 3:17=A0pm, Xah Lee wrote: > > But the rule for a file name without a dot should be: > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0("/[^\\./]*\\'" . fundamental-mode) > > > Where should I tell this so that the error could be modified? > > Do Alt+x report-emacs-bug. If I understand it correctly I need to have Emacs configured to send e- mail, but I found that I can send the bug to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. I'll do that. > > Also on some places end of the filename is written like \\' and on > > other places like $. What is the difference between those two? > Strictly speaking, using =93\=94 is more proper, but often =93$=94 works = too > unless the file name contains newline char. (thanks to Barry who > explained this earlier here) In my case the two would be equivalent (I never have a filename with a newline in it), but I'll change the occurences with the better one.