Making ELSE know the language by file extension

Making ELSE know the language by file extension

[TheLonelyStar]

Hi,

I have installed ELSE, and added this to my .emacs:
(require 'else-mode)
(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
          (lambda ()
            ;; this is shown as a lambda so you can add further interesting
            ;; minor mode definitions here.
            (else-mode)))

Now, if I open "test.cpp" else asks me fo the language type (and I say C++).
Can't else now the language somehow automaticly?

Thanks!
Nathan
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Re: Making ELSE know the language by file extension

[Peter Milliken]

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Hi Nathan,

ELSE (currently) works out the name of the template to load using the major
mode name - in versions of Emacs prior to 21.1 this worked perfectly because
C and C++ files had a major mode name of "C" and "C++" respectively. So ELSE
would calculate a template name of C.lse and C++.lse respectively - the
names of the language templates you would have downloaded.

Emacs 21.1 (or perhaps the c-mode changes did this?) changed the major mode
name displayed to be C/l and C++/l (I have no idea what the "l" is - another
language also uses the C major mode????) respectively - so ELSE's current
naming rules were broken.

I have produced a new version of ELSE that allows a customisable variable to
be set by the user so that such major mode names can be "translated" i.e.

"C/l" => "C"
"C++/l" => "C++"

and then ELSE can find the correct template file.

I just haven't put the new version of ELSE on my web-site yet (I can't
access it from work due to firewall restrictions and I never seem to
remember to do it from home - too many things happening there :-)).

I'll email you the latest version directly and hopefully this weekend get my
web-site updated as well. Or you can apply directly to me at
peterm@resmed.com.au.

Regards
Peter


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:33 AM, TheLonelyStar <nabble@lonely-star.org>
wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have installed ELSE, and added this to my .emacs:
> (require 'else-mode)
> (add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
>          (lambda ()
>            ;; this is shown as a lambda so you can add further interesting
>            ;; minor mode definitions here.
>            (else-mode)))
>
> Now, if I open "test.cpp" else asks me fo the language type (and I say
> C++).
> Can't else now the language somehow automaticly?
>
> Thanks!
> Nathan
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://www.nabble.com/Making-ELSE-know-the-language-by-file-extension-tp16995070p16995070.html
> Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
>
>

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