From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: auto-mode-alist - recognize prefix instead of sufix?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:18:32 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <frv5tn$13p$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47E1A5D1.7030902@gmail.com>
Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> Christian Herenz wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> is it possible to use a major-mode on files with a certain prefix?
>> I know that I can do something like this:
>>
>> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.html$" .
>> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-21 2:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.9283.1206065927.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-03-22 15:49 ` Christian Herenz
2008-03-22 15:57 ` Le TeXnicien de Surface
2008-03-22 16:27 ` Christian Herenz
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