Re: auto-mode-alist, adding two modes

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article 
<slrnfgkl1e.2ps.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl>,
 Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Gijs Hillenius wrote:
> > I would like to get emacs to use longlines-mode *and* flyspell-mode
> > for all files ending in .txt
> >
> > If I add this in my .emacs 
> >
> > (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.txt\\'" . longlines-mode ))
> >
> > followed by a similar line for flyspell, ignores the first, and uses
> > only the latter.
> 
> you should read the documentation of auto-mode-alist. it says quite clearly
> that it is a list for specifying *major* modes. both longline-mode and
> flyspell-mode are minor modes, and should therefore be specified in a
> different way.

I don't think this is really that important.  It's just an alist that 
maps filename patterns to functions to call when loading the file into a 
buffer.  While this is intended to set the major mode, this is really 
just a convention.  Nothing really cares what the function does.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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