From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: weber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-mode-alist, adding two modes Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:37:56 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1191857876.028299.269470@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> References: <878x6dboyn.fsf@hillenius.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1191858152 25877 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2007 15:42:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:42:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 17:42:30 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 1Ieuik-0000Gt-M9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ieuif-0005FK-6H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:40:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 201.21.201.198 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1191857876 20176 127.0.0.1 (8 Oct 2007 15:37:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:37:56 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <878x6dboyn.fsf@hillenius.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 stargate.datacom:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE5) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=201.21.201.198; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152704 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:48211 Archived-At: On Oct 8, 12:33 pm, Gijs Hillenius wrote: > Hi > > I would like to get emacs to use longlines-mode *and* flyspell-mode > for all files ending in .txt > > If I add this in my .emacs > > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.txt\\'" . longlines-mode )) > > followed by a similar line for flyspell, ignores the first, and uses > only the latter. > > I've tried several more complicated incantations, but I'm not exactly > fluent in lisp. > > Would appreciate a hint or two.. > > Thx > > Gijs > > -- > The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the > people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people > drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. > -- Gore Vidal Maybe something like this would suffice? (add-hook 'text-mode-hook '(lambda () (longlines-mode 1) (flyspell- mode 1)) Just turn on those minor modes when a text-mode file shows up (txt would be associated with text-mode like in your example) HTH weber