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From: "William Payne" <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se>
Subject: Re: Three questions
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 01:27:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cifrsc$l0f$1@news.island.liu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 414B6DF3.8000002@yahoo.com


"Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:414B6DF3.8000002@yahoo.com...
> William Payne wrote:
> > "John Paul Wallington" <jpw@gnu.org> wrote in message
> > news:86mzzwz6so.fsf@vaio.shootybangbang.com...
> >>"William Payne" <mikas493_no_spam@student.liu.se> writes:
> >>>Second question: I have the following in my .emacs:
> >>>(setq auto-mode-alist
> >>>      (cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\'" . makefile-mode)
> >>>       auto-mode-alist))
> >>>
> >>>My old varaint would trigger Makefile mode (think I just had
> >>>Makefile$ or something similar), if the path contained the string
> >>>"Makefile". That wasn't so good. This varaint triggers makefile
> >>>mode only if the actual file name itself is called Makefile: that
> >>>is good. However, I want it to trigger make > file mode if the file
> >>>name (not the path!) contains the string Makefile, so Makefile.in
> >>>would trigger also. What do I need to change to get that?
> >>
> >>If you remove the above snippet from your .emacs file then Emacs
> >>should work as you expect by default.  Does it?
> >
> > And if I comment out the lines regarding makefile-mode, I don't get
> > makefile mode for files named Makefile.txt for example, only if they
> > are named Makefile.
>
> To match an optional extension:
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>       (cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\(\\.[^.]*\\)?\\'" . makefile-mode)
>        auto-mode-alist))
>
> -- 
> Kevin Rodgers
>

Thanks Kevin, that works!

/ WP 

      reply	other threads:[~2004-09-17 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-11 21:35 Three questions William Payne
2004-09-11 21:53 ` Drew Adams
2004-09-12  0:09 ` John Paul Wallington
2004-09-12 14:40   ` William Payne
2004-09-17 23:06     ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-09-17 23:27       ` William Payne [this message]

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