This behavior happens only when I fire up emacs under /cygwin/X11.
I have also native binaries of emacs installed. If I fire that up it
automatically recognizes the c-code and sets the mode appropriately.

"c. kumar" <kumarchi@attbi.com> wrote in message
news:WSaG9.197045$1O2.12371@sccrnsc04...
> It looks okay to me (see the attached list).
>
> "Kai Großjohann" <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
> news:841y5291ar.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de...
> > "c. kumar" <kumarchi@attbi.com> writes:
> >
> > > When I open up my c-code in emacs it used to automaticlaly open it in
> > > c-mode. Under the latest cygwin/X11 for some reason it opens it
> fundamental
> > > mode and I have been manually setting it c-mode.
> >
> > The varibale auto-mode-alist contains regexp/mode pairs.  Emacs looks
> > there to decide which mode to use.
> >
> > What does C-h v auto-mode-alist RET say on your system?
> >
> > --
> > ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn    (Frank Nobis)
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