file association in emacs

file association in emacs

[ypitrey]

hi,

how can i have the m4-mode activated automatically when i open a .m4 or .m4x
file?

more generally, how can i associate a syntaxic mode with a file type?

thanks a lot!

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Re: file association in emacs

[Thomas Hühn]

ypitrey <ypitrey@gmail.com> writes:

> how can i have the m4-mode activated automatically when i open a .m4 or .m4x
> file?
>
> more generally, how can i associate a syntaxic mode with a file type?

Add something like ("\\.m4$" . m4-mode) to auto-mode-alist.

Thomas

Re: file association in emacs

[Ivan]

On петък, Май 25 2007, ypitrey wrote:

> hi,
>
> how can i have the m4-mode activated automatically when i open a .m4 or .m4x
> file?
>
> more generally, how can i associate a syntaxic mode with a file type?
>
> thanks a lot!

Try this way:

(setq auto-mode-alist
      (append '(("\\.m4$" . m4-mode)
                ("\\.m4cx$" . m4-mode)) auto-mode-alist))

Re: file association in emacs

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Thomas Hühn <newsgroups@thomas-huehn.de>:
> ypitrey <ypitrey@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> how can i have the m4-mode activated automatically when i open a .m4 or .m4x
>> file?
>>
>> more generally, how can i associate a syntaxic mode with a file type?
>
> Add something like ("\\.m4$" . m4-mode) to auto-mode-alist.
>
> Thomas

Add

 (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.m4x*$" . m4-mode))

to your ~/.emacs if you want to match '.m4' and '.m4x' file suffixes.

Sebastian

Re: file association in emacs

[Stefan Monnier]

> (setq auto-mode-alist
>       (append '(("\\.m4$" . m4-mode)
>                 ("\\.m4cx$" . m4-mode)) auto-mode-alist))

The "end of string" mark should be "\\'" rather than "$" (which means "end
of line").


        Stefan