* Difficulty opening a particular file
@ 2015-07-17 13:18 Haines Brown
2015-07-17 13:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-17 13:25 ` Stefan Monnier
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Haines Brown @ 2015-07-17 13:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I have no trouble having find file open .basrc, but to open .balance.bal
consistently must be done twice, and trying to do it with a bookmark
hangs emacs permanently. The problem seems to be in emacs
configuration.
This emacs uses as its configuration a ~/.emacs file. However, this file
add-to-list load-library ~/.emacs.d/elist/basic.el where configuration
for this particular emacs session is located. In that file there is a
stanza:
(autoload 'balance-mode "balance")
(setq auto-mode-alist
(append '(("\\.bal$" . balance-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
This work earlier this year, but for some reason not now. If I open
balance.bal manually rather than by bookmark the balance mode works
properly.
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* Re: Difficulty opening a particular file
2015-07-17 13:18 Difficulty opening a particular file Haines Brown
@ 2015-07-17 13:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-17 14:31 ` Haines Brown
2015-07-17 13:25 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Pascal J. Bourguignon @ 2015-07-17 13:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> writes:
> I have no trouble having find file open .basrc, but to open .balance.bal
> consistently must be done twice, and trying to do it with a bookmark
> hangs emacs permanently. The problem seems to be in emacs
> configuration.
>
> This emacs uses as its configuration a ~/.emacs file. However, this file
> add-to-list load-library ~/.emacs.d/elist/basic.el where configuration
> for this particular emacs session is located. In that file there is a
> stanza:
>
> (autoload 'balance-mode "balance")
> (setq auto-mode-alist
> (append '(("\\.bal$" . balance-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
>
> This work earlier this year, but for some reason not now. If I open
> balance.bal manually rather than by bookmark the balance mode works
> properly.
Perhaps you are missing the balance-mode?
Try: C-h f balance-mode RET
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* Re: Difficulty opening a particular file
2015-07-17 13:18 Difficulty opening a particular file Haines Brown
2015-07-17 13:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
@ 2015-07-17 13:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-17 14:45 ` Haines Brown
1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2015-07-17 13:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> (append '(("\\.bal$" . balance-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
^
Should be \\'
Stefan
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* Re: Difficulty opening a particular file
2015-07-17 13:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
@ 2015-07-17 14:31 ` Haines Brown
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From: Haines Brown @ 2015-07-17 14:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> writes:
>
> > I have no trouble having find file open .basrc, but to open .balance.bal
> > consistently must be done twice, and trying to do it with a bookmark
> > hangs emacs permanently. The problem seems to be in emacs
> > configuration.
> Perhaps you are missing the balance-mode?
> Try: C-h f balance-mode RET
Don't think so. When I open the .balance.bal file in emacs, it move into
the balance mode.
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* Re: Difficulty opening a particular file
2015-07-17 13:25 ` Stefan Monnier
@ 2015-07-17 14:45 ` Haines Brown
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From: Haines Brown @ 2015-07-17 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 09:25:46AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > (append '(("\\.bal$" . balance-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
> ^
> Should be \\'
Thanks, but doing that had no effect. Opening ~/.balance.bal still
requires repeating the C-x C-f command, and trying it as a bookmark
still hangs emacs.
But what is interesting is that if I comment the stanza and restart
emacs and then open .balance.bal with the duplicate command, emacs puts
itself into the balance-mode. So the stanza appears to be superfluous.
If I comment the stanza, the problem persists. If I start emacs with no
configuration, there is no problem opening ~.balance.bal but emacs is
not put into the balance mode. I don't understand how emacs knows to
move to the balance mode when a .bal file is opened without the stanza.
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