* auto-mode-alist - recognize prefix instead of sufix?
@ 2008-03-19 23:07 Christian Herenz
2008-03-19 23:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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From: Christian Herenz @ 2008-03-19 23:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hi,
is it possible to use a major-mode on files with a certain prefix?
I know that I can do something like this:
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.html$" .
html-helper-mode)auto-mode-alist))
But what about opening files like foo.comments, foo.examples and so on
in a special mode?
Thanks in advance...
Christian
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* Re: auto-mode-alist - recognize prefix instead of sufix?
2008-03-19 23:07 auto-mode-alist - recognize prefix instead of sufix? Christian Herenz
@ 2008-03-19 23:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-03-21 2:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Lennart Borgman (gmail) @ 2008-03-19 23:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christian Herenz; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Christian Herenz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to use a major-mode on files with a certain prefix?
> I know that I can do something like this:
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.html$" .
> html-helper-mode)auto-mode-alist))
>
> But what about opening files like foo.comments, foo.examples and so on
> in a special mode?
I never tried, but from the documentation it looks perfectly possible.
Have you tried to use a regexp like "^foo\." ?
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* Re: auto-mode-alist - recognize prefix instead of sufix?
2008-03-19 23:46 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
@ 2008-03-21 2:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2008-03-21 2:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Christian Herenz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to use a major-mode on files with a certain prefix?
>> I know that I can do something like this:
>>
>> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.html$" .
>> html-helper-mode)auto-mode-alist))
>>
>> But what about opening files like foo.comments, foo.examples and so on
>> in a special mode?
>
>
> I never tried, but from the documentation it looks perfectly possible.
> Have you tried to use a regexp like "^foo\." ?
It is definitely possible, but the auto-mode-alist regexp is matched
against the whole file name sans backup suffix i.e.
(file-name-sans-version buffer-file-name).
So the regexp should be something like "\\(\\`\\|/\\)foo\.[^/]*\\'"
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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