modify .emacs

modify .emacs

[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))

But I don't know where to include them.

Thanks f or any help. Michael.

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Re: modify .emacs

[Daniel Brockman]

"Michael Dewar" <fishliveroil@hotmail.com> writes:

> 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))
>
> But I don't know where to include them.

It doesn't matter.  Just put them at the top of the file.

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Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>

Re: modify .emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

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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Re: modify .emacs

[Tim X]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 17.05.2005 um 14:55 schrieb Michael Dewar:
>
>
> 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)))
>
Unless I'm missing something, the \\ doesn't have anything to do with
the end of a word - in the RE above, the \\ at the end of literal
atoms is introducing 'special' characters i.e. \\| indicates an
alternative and \\(...\\) a grouping which allows you to reference
parts of the match with $1, $2 etc. The $ matches the end of the
string your trying to match and is as far as I know the best and only
way to match the end of a string.

Tim

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Re: modify .emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.05.2005 um 00:21 schrieb Tim X:

> Unless I'm missing something, the \\ doesn't have anything to do with
> the end of a word

It's ``\\'´´ that I wrote a few times ...

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