From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ignoring unknown mode `GNUmakefile-mode'
Date: 27 Jun 2016 09:56:59 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dtcbjbFd3pnU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.164.1467017573.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Dan Hitt wrote:
> I have a file whose name is not 'makefile', nor 'Makefile', nor 'GNUmakefile'.
>
> If i visit it using emacs (v 24.5.1, xubuntu 16.04), the modeline
> correctly indicates GNUmakefile.
>
> 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
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[not found] <mailman.164.1467017573.26859.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2016-06-27 9:34 ` Ignoring unknown mode `GNUmakefile-mode' Alain Ketterlin
2016-06-27 9:56 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2016-06-27 14:48 ` Dan Hitt
2016-06-26 21:05 Dan Hitt
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