From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: File mode specification error: (invalid-regexp "Invalid regular expression")
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:50:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od4k7fpg.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15448.1217089300.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Roberto Bernetti <roberto.bernetti@poste.it> writes:
> I get the following error loading any file i the previous list:
>
> File mode specification error: (invalid-regexp "Invalid regular expression")
> [...] for the string:
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\_dbg$" . makefile-mode))
_ is no special character for regular expressions. You don't need to escape it.
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("_dbg$" . makefile-mode))
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2008-07-26 16:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2008-07-26 16:55 ` File mode specification error: (invalid-regexp "Invalid regular expression") Cor Gest
2008-07-26 14:42 Roberto Bernetti
2008-07-26 18:36 ` Peter Dyballa
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