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David Wende <dwende@lynxpn.com> wrote:

> M-: (load "ruby-mode")
>
> does work and start the mode.
>
> I have the following 2 lines in my .emacs
>
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.rb$" . ruby-mode))
>     (autoload 'ruby-mode "Ruby mode" "Ruby mode" t)
> but this apparently does not work.

The second arg to `autoload' is the file name string of the emacs lisp
library to pass to `load'.  It shouldn't be "Ruby mode"; try
"ruby-mode" instead.