From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: did syntax for setq auto-mode-alist or regexp change with 21.3.1? Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 14:48:12 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1120154956.527628.38170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120164571 21872 80.91.229.2 (30 Jun 2005 20:49:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 20:49:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 30 22:49:30 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5xy-0006Or-UY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:48:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do66I-0000Cv-K6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:57:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do64F-0008JF-0q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Do646-0008Dh-Pz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:55:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Do645-0008Cx-TJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:55:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1Do62r-0005uN-5M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:54:01 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Do5qL-0005KP-4B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:41:05 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 22:41:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 38 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <1120154956.527628.38170@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 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:27753 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27753 Tom wrote: > This worked with emacs 20.7.1 on Linux > > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons > `("makefile\\(\\.aix\\|\\.hp\\|\\.sol\\|\\.linux\\|\\.gcc\\)\\'".makefile-mode) > auto-mode-alist)) > > With emacs 21.3.1 on Linux I get this error for the above syntax: > > File mode specification error: (invalid-function (\.makefile-mode)) > > I had to do it this way to get it to work in emacs 21.3.1 on Linux > > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.linux" . makefile-mode ) > auto-mode-alist )) > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.sol" . makefile-mode ) > auto-mode-alist )) > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.aix" . makefile-mode ) > auto-mode-alist )) > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.hp" . makefile-mode ) > auto-mode-alist )) > (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.gcc" . makefile-mode ) > auto-mode-alist )) No, you just need to put spaces around the dot that's between the complex regexp and the function. > Any ideas why the first form no longer works? To get you to clean up your code :-) Since dot is a valid character in a symbol name, the Lisp reader requires surrounding whitespace in order to interpret it as the infix cons operator. -- Kevin Rodgers