Re: Forcing a mode

[Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>]

>>>>> "AB" == Aaron Bingham <bingham@cenix-bioscience.com> writes:

  AB> CloudStrife wrote:

  >> I have some tcl files that donot have .tcl extension in file
  >> name. So when i open them in emacs the tcl mode is not turned
  >> on. can i enforce this onto the file.
  >> 
  AB> Hi Cloud,

  AB> I don't know quite what you mean by "enforce this onto a file".
  AB> Do you mean you want to manually set the mode after you open the
  AB> file, or do you want to tell Emacs to permanently treat the file
  AB> as Tcl?

  AB> If the former, simply use M-x tcl-mode.


I think he wants this to happen automatically. 

You can do this with file variables. Sticking


;; -*- mode: tcl -*-  

as the first line of the file should work. 

Or 

;; Local Variables: ***
;; mode: tcl ***

at the end should work. You can replace ";;" with what ever tcl uses
as a comment. 

Phil