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From: Dan Hitt <dan.hitt@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ignoring unknown mode `GNUmakefile-mode'
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 07:48:05 -0700
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Thanks Joost and Alain,

The diagnostics work the way you said and makefile-gmake solves my problems.

dan

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Joost Kremers
<joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dan Hitt wrote:
.....
>> But if i add
>> # -*- GNUmakefile -*-
>> at the top of the file, i get a message:
>>     Ignoring unknown mode `GNUmakefile-mode'.
>
> The name displayed in the mode line is not necessarily the actual name
> of the major mode. For that, you should inspect the (buffer-local) value
> of the variable `major-mode'. Do `C-h v major-mode RET` to check it out.
>
>
> --
> Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm