From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: file association in emacs Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 16:31:25 +0300 Message-ID: <87k5uxav2q.fsf@moley.org> References: <10801875.post@talk.nabble.com> <87d50pw0od.fsf@mid.thomas-huehn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180099816 3583 80.91.229.12 (25 May 2007 13:30:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 13:30:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 25 15:30:15 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HrZrv-0007Tx-4x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:30:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrZru-0008V7-OV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 09:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrZrf-0008Sc-QZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 09:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HrZre-0008Oy-Km for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 09:29:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HrZre-0008Oi-Hp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 09:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HrZre-0008J0-1X for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 09:29:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HrZrV-0004KO-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:29:45 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:29:45 +0200 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2007 15:29:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:58oPo2on8CA+L7LJFFb5/TVkrko= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:44432 Archived-At: Quoth Thomas Hühn : > ypitrey writes: > >> how can i have the m4-mode activated automatically when i open a .m4 or .m4x >> file? >> >> more generally, how can i associate a syntaxic mode with a file type? > > Add something like ("\\.m4$" . m4-mode) to auto-mode-alist. > > Thomas Add (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.m4x*$" . m4-mode)) to your ~/.emacs if you want to match '.m4' and '.m4x' file suffixes. Sebastian