From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Subject: selecting a major mode -- more newbie questions
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:25:44 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209251321260.24584-100000@dell> (raw)
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:
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.xml\\'" . xml-mode))
3) adding a directive in the first non-blank like, as in
<?xml version='1.0' ?> <!-- -*- xml -*- -->
(or whatever the comment structure is for that type of data)
4) adding (within comments at the bottom of the file):
<!-- Local variables: -->
<!-- mode: xml -->
does that just about do it? have i missed anything? thanks for
your patience; i'm making progress.
rday
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2002-09-25 17:57 ` selecting a major mode -- more newbie questions Barry Margolin
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