From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: step Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: about auto-mode-alist Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:38:01 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196386847 22833 80.91.229.12 (30 Nov 2007 01:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:40:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 30 02:40:52 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 1Ixus8-0002Wi-EE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 02:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ixurs-00080Y-CT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:40:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.32.174.48 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1196386681 16513 127.0.0.1 (30 Nov 2007 01:38:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:38:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=210.32.174.48; posting-account=36-j9AoAAAC2cBASboXsNT86-OhbxFJB User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154279 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:49706 Archived-At: hi,i use gnu emacs23 ,when i set the auto-mode-alist, it seems don't work. the elisp i add in the my .emacs file follow: (setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("\\.css\\'" . css-mode) ("\\.c\\'" . c-mode) ("\\.cc\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.cpp\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.cxx\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.hpp\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.e\\'" . eiffel-mode) ("\\.hxx\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.h\\'" . c-mode) ("\\.hh\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.idl\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.ipp\\'" . c++-mode) ("\\.java\\'" . java-mode) ("\\.lua\\'" . lua-mode) ("\\.pl\\'" . perl-mode) ("\\.pm\\'" . perl-mode) ("\\.rb\\'" . ruby-mode) ("\\.rbw\\'" . ruby-mode) ("\\.t2t\\'" . t2t-mode) ("\\.txt\\'" . text-mode) ("\\.py\\'" . python-mode) ("\\.tex\\'" . LaTeX-mode) ("\\.\\(xml\\|xsl\\|rng\\|xhtml\\)\\'" . nxml-mode) ) auto-mode-alist)) when i use the C-x C-f create a new .xml file ,it can auto load to nxml-mode ,but if i open a exist .xml file ,it auto load to sgml-mode which is the default mode emacs set in the file.el . is there somebody konw why? thanks!