From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to set a file major mode in elisp Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 06:56:50 -0700 Message-ID: <87ir4kagyl.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: <1194007331.617716.265210@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194012527 4495 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2007 14:08:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:08:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 02 15:08:48 2007 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 1InxCa-0004Vq-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:08:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InxCQ-00037j-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:08:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InxC7-000377-EV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1InxC5-00036o-Vb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:08:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1InxC5-00036l-Qa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:08:17 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1InxC5-0007ob-2r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:08:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1InxC0-0003lT-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:08:12 +0000 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:08:12 +0000 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:08:12 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:miU+A8aeWKi3Jk0PWsuBHG9xRSQ= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:48987 Archived-At: I will be adding an entry to the diary file, and I would like the buffer to be in the diary mode. Is there some way of specifying it explicitly instead of using auto-mode-alist? Sure -- (defun diary-entry () (interactive) (find-file "~/diary") (diary-mode) ;-----^^^^^^^^^^^^ (goto-char (point-max)) (open-line 1) (goto-char (point-max)) ... ) -- The woods aren't any drier than they were in 2000, but there are a lot more people with matches. -- Doug Chapin, Electionline.org