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: How in .dir-locals.el make association between file extension and Emacs mode? Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:40:03 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294126862 1760 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2011 07:41:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 07:41:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 04 08:40:58 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa1Vq-0008BE-AJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:40:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pa1Vp-0006sl-Nn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:40:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=36825 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pa1Uv-0006s6-Gf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:40:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa1Uu-0001oX-Eh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:40:01 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:56694) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa1Uu-0001oJ-7p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 02:40:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa1Us-0007bc-6U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:39:58 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:39:58 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 08:39:58 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:78155 Archived-At: On 12/28/10 3:31 PM, Oleksandr Gavenko wrote: > How in .dir-locals.el make association between file extension and Emacs mode? The association between file name extensions and major modes is stored in the auto-mode-alist variable, which is not a buffer local variable and thus not suitable to be used as a file or directory variable. That is an abstract argument against it, there is also a practical argument: auto-mode-alist is a global variable that is consulted by set-auto-mode, which is run by normal-mode before it calls hack-local-variables/ hack-dir-local-variables. What do you want to do? -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA