From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: Philippe Delavalade <philippe.delavalade@orange.fr>
Subject: Re: emacs or mutt ?
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 10:39:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1h5eomi.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190311075343.GA21526@tuxteam.de>
On Mon, Mar 11 2019, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:08:50PM +0100, Philippe Delavalade
> wrote:
>> > The best way to do this, I think, is to use
>> > `auto-mode-alist`. Put this in
>> > ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
>> >
>> > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
>> > '("mutt-[a-z0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+.*\\'" .
>> > message-mode))
>>
>> I had no file ~/.emac.d/init.el
>>
>> So I created it and wrote your line but it produces no effect.
>
> I don't know whether this is a typo, but the "normal" name is
> ~/.emacs.d
> (you wrote ~/.emac.d).
It is a typo, indeed.
> Nevertheless...
>
>> Finally I put the line in .emacs and now I have what I want. I
>> replaced
>> message-mode with text-mode because I don't know at all this
>> mode but I
>> will try it later.
>
> if you have an ~/.emacs, this will take precedence, I think.
Yes, AFAIK it will. ~/.emacs is the older one of the two, and when
~/.emacs.d/init.el was introduced, the devs didn't want to upset
people's configs, so ~/.emacs still takes precedence.
--
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-11 9:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-10 10:23 emacs or mutt ? Philippe Delavalade
2019-03-10 16:16 ` Joost Kremers
2019-03-10 22:08 ` Philippe Delavalade
2019-03-11 7:53 ` tomas
2019-03-11 9:39 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2019-03-11 9:49 ` tomas
2019-03-13 1:47 ` 황병희
2019-03-13 8:30 ` tomas
2019-03-11 9:50 ` Joost Kremers
2019-03-13 6:42 ` Bob Proulx
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