Re: perl-mode.el file in Mac OS X

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 02.02.2005 um 04:54 schrieb Nicholas Tamara:

> Hello,
>
> Can anyone point me to the right location to place the perl-mod.el
> file so that the emacs that comes with Mac OS X recognizes .pl files
> as Perl script files? Thanks.

It's not the Elisp file that you have to put anywhere -- it's probably 
right now in a place that Emacs searches. You can check that with "C-h 
v load-path" and then check that you to have

/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el
/usr/share/emacs/21.2/lisp/progmodes/perl-mode.el


What you need to do is to either "(require 'perl-mode)" actively or to 
set auto-mode-alist in a manner like this (to have only one place where 
you augment this list):

(setq auto-mode-alist
   (append
     '(("\\.xsl$"       . sgml-mode)
       ("\\.plist$"     . sgml-mode)
       ("\\.idd$"       . sgml-mode)
       ("\\.ide$"       . sgml-mode)
       ("\\.xml$"       . xml-mode)
       ("\\.xsl$"       . xml-mode)
       ("\\.fo$"        . xml-mode)
       ("\\.nw$"        . noweb-mode)
       ("\\.f90$"       . f90-mode)
       ("\\.pl$"        . perl-mode)
       ("\\.pod$"       . perl-mode)
       ("\\.tgz$"       . tar-mode)
       ("\\.tar\\.bz2$" . tar-mode)
       ("\\.tar\\.gz$"  . tar-mode))
   auto-mode-alist))

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