load custom minor/major modes

load custom minor/major modes

[Thomas Ruschival]

I found a elisp source that puts emacs into SQL*Plus mode for oracle SQL.
I can compile it and load it but ho do I tell emacs to load it whenever a file
called *.sql is opened?
I also like to modify the the java mode, I can't edit the global elisp
file and recompile it so can I also modify menues on a user basis like i can
set my tab size etc.?

Thanks 
Thomas

Re: load custom minor/major modes

[kgold]

Thomas Ruschival <t.ruschival@vivid-md.de> writes:

> I found a elisp source that puts emacs into SQL*Plus mode for oracle
> SQL.  I can compile it and load it but ho do I tell emacs to load it
> whenever a file called *.sql is opened?

(setq auto-mode-alist
      (append '(
		("\\.sql$"	  . sql-mode)
		) auto-mode-alist))


> I also like to modify the the java mode, I can't edit the global
> elisp file and recompile it so can I also modify menues on a user
> basis like i can set my tab size etc.?

Example:

(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook
	  (function (lambda ()
		      (setq c-basic-offset 4)
)))


There is a java-mode-hook as well, but generally people used the same
style for C, C++, and Java so the common hook is used.

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