Re: modify .emacs

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 17.05.2005 um 14:55 schrieb Michael Dewar:

> I use M-x customize, I'm told to add these lines to .emacs
>
> (autoload ’gp-mode "pari" nil t)
> (autoload ’gp-script-mode "pari" nil t)
> (autoload ’gp "pari" nil t)
> (autoload ’gpman "pari" nil t)
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>    (cons ’("\\.gp$" . gp-script-mode) auto-mode-alist))

When customizing your Emacs you don't need to add anything to .emacs 
because in the customize buffers you press the button to save your 
customization for further use and Emacs does all for you.

If you need to add the lines above to .emacs then just do it! Usually 
any place is good outside the customize clauses. It's good too to add 
them in a "block," with empty lines before and afterwards and a comment 
for what and why (and when ?) they were added. If you add more than one 
cons to auto-mode-alist you can merge them together. It was said on 
this list that \\' is a more precise description of a file name's end 
than $. When using more excessively the regular expressions the code 
can become very hard to understand:

(setq auto-mode-alist
   (append
    '(("\\.\\(xsl\\|id\\[de\\]\\)\\'"                 . sgml-mode)
      ("\\.\\(plist\\|xml\\|xsl\\|fo\\)\\'"           . xml-mode)
      ("\\.\\(tgz\\|tar\\.\\(bz2\\|gz\\|Z\\)\\)\\'"   . tar-mode)
      ("\\.\\(arc\\|jar\\|lzh\\|zip\\|zoo\\)\\'"      . tar-mode)
    auto-mode-alist)))


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Greetings

   Pete

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