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: auto-mode-alist - recognize prefix instead of sufix? Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:18:32 -0600 Message-ID: References: <47E1A5D1.7030902@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206065952 1260 80.91.229.12 (21 Mar 2008 02:19:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:19:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 21 03:19:41 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JcWr6-0002RI-OT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:19:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcWqW-0006HB-7g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:19:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcWqD-0006Gs-Q2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:18:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JcWqC-0006GK-Ge for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:18:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JcWqC-0006GG-7t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JcWqB-0005eU-HI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:18:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JcWq6-0007aE-Qu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:18:38 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:18:38 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2008 02:18:38 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) In-Reply-To: <47E1A5D1.7030902@gmail.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:52579 Archived-At: 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