From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-mode-alist, adding two modes Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:22:32 -0400 Organization: Symantec Message-ID: References: <878x6dboyn.fsf@hillenius.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191897638 23514 80.91.229.12 (9 Oct 2007 02:40:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 02:40:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 09 04:40:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1If51Q-0003ZC-OK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1If51L-0005fL-De for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:22:32 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Copies-To: never Original-Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.108.171 Original-X-Trace: sv3-d6msYa80vf2sQDLjUW6cJsJE3syhIu7dBB6YXVFzO5wyLwKSjUfhosV/pISxtbhKcBZivcUbe5l29BI!17jMHt9/qTu19dmB5y18QSApfzyJPKHXbJqUUEilX7sIOxE3xwxLOFJuIbKRzjeTRz1eBZ0OtHLT!2LJIBtx/H2Cj3k1PSFYTVI2bUARjOvnEUAJ7uZhWQg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152728 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:48234 Archived-At: In article , Joost Kremers wrote: > Gijs Hillenius wrote: > > I would like to get emacs to use longlines-mode *and* flyspell-mode > > for all files ending in .txt > > > > If I add this in my .emacs > > > > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.txt\\'" . longlines-mode )) > > > > followed by a similar line for flyspell, ignores the first, and uses > > only the latter. > > you should read the documentation of auto-mode-alist. it says quite clearly > that it is a list for specifying *major* modes. both longline-mode and > flyspell-mode are minor modes, and should therefore be specified in a > different way. I don't think this is really that important. It's just an alist that maps filename patterns to functions to call when loading the file into a buffer. While this is intended to set the major mode, this is really just a convention. Nothing really cares what the function does. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***