From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: did syntax for setq auto-mode-alist or regexp change with 21.3.1? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:00:43 +0200 Organization: sometimes Message-ID: <7eekaj4l1g.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> References: <1120154956.527628.38170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120165681 25282 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2005 21:08:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:08:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 23:07:53 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do6FX-0000n4-10 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 23:07:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do6Nq-0006T4-PA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 17:15:42 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!LF.net!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ada2.unipv.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1120165241 6101 193.204.44.145 (30 Jun 2005 21:00:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:00:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:NPPUvnI9cPLUvCv9zSB9PXYQen4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132280 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:27755 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27755 "Tom" writes: > This worked with emacs 20.7.1 on Linux > > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons > `("makefile\\(\\.aix\\|\\.hp\\|\\.sol\\|\\.linux\\|\\.gcc\\)\\'".makefile-mode) > > Any ideas why the first form no longer works? it is sufficient to add a space around the dot, and use a forward-single-quote (instead of backtick), resulting in: '("makefile\\(\\.aix\\|\\.hp\\|\\.sol\\|\\.linux\\|\\.gcc\\)\\'" . makefile-mode) here, i added a newline and some more spaces as well -- how many isn't as important as the presence of at least one. this form will work for both old and new emacs. that the form w/o spaces worked at all for old emacs is probably a fluke. thi