From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs . How can I associate *.cu files as cc mode as a default ? Date: 19 Sep 2007 17:55:16 GMT Organization: Sedgeboy Inc. Message-ID: References: <1190160650.850759.138290@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> <1190164199.912592.37280@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1190165135.154174.99310@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <1190167469.762189.227620@n39g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <46f14b38$0$3196$8404b019@news.wineasy.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190228427 21671 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2007 19:00:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:00:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 19 21:00:04 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 1IY4Ub-0007Pk-Hh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:41:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IY4UZ-0005OF-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:41:43 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!news.aliant.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.177.120.134 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152178 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:47687 Archived-At: On 2007-09-19, Gordon Beaton wrote: > On 19 Sep 2007 15:47:19 GMT, Tyler Smith wrote: >> (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'my-find-file-hook) >> > > If you want to do this for all files of that type, then c-mode-hook is > a better place to put the function, which doesn't need to check the > filename: > > (add-hook 'c-mode-hook (lambda() (setq c-basic-offset 4))) Thanks for the suggestion, but this is something I want to use only on files for this particular project, not all c code. > > Alternatively, use file variables to save settings specific to that > file in the file itself. Put a comment like this one near the end of > the file: > > /* > * Local Variables: > * mode:c > * c-basic-offset: 4 > * End: > */ > Another good suggestion, and maybe the best alternative to my find-file-hook. Is there something in particular that is bad about find-file-hook, or is it just because there are better options to use that I should avoid it? Thanks! Tyler