Re: How to turn off conf-mode

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Robert L Knighten wrote:
> Thank you for your comments, they certainly make the issue clearer, but where
> I am still confused about how to change this in a useful way.  My problem
> isn't just what regular expression to use but rather that the one at issue is
> part of the defvar of auto-mode-alist that is created when files.el is an
> official part of emacs.  Of course I can change files.el, but I certainly do
> not want to do that.  And of course I can just redefine auto-mode-alist
> changing only the troublesome part, but again I hope there is a less extreme
> solution.

Put this in your .emacs file:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist "\\(/\\|\\`\\)cf\\.out\\'" 'text-mode)


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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA