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In article <mailman.1032974663.4187.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>  just to make sure i've got a complete list, i see four ways to 
>invoke a major mode when editing a file -- any other ways i've left
>out?  (the examples i show are based on my wanting to edit XML)
>
>1) explicitly with "M-x" <modename>
>2) adding to .emacs the appropriate auto-mode-alist setting, as in:
>3) adding a directive in the first non-blank like, as in
>4) adding (within comments at the bottom of the file):

There's also interpreter-mode-alist, which applies to files whose first
line starts with "#!" and matches against the rest of the line.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
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