Re: Disabling VHDL template

[Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>]

On 1/9/2013 2:13 PM, ryan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just installed ghdl on my centos machine, and I am trying to use
> emacs to write vhdl.  However, every time I use a key word like 'use'
> or 'entity' emacs goes into some kind of template mode.  I did some
> reading on the emacs FAQ, and figured I should be able to disable it
> by removing some lines in the .emacs file.  However, the only .emacs
> file i can find is in root's directory, and it doesn't seem to
> contain anything related to templates (it is almost bare).  I can't
> find anything else on Google either, so I am pretty lost at this
> point.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction for disabling the vhdl
> templates?

My guess is that there's some global file in the emacs tree that sets 
files with the .vhdl extension to a vhdl mode.

The Linux install is often in /usr/share/emacs.

Alternatively, perhaps you can override it.  Something like (untested):

(setq auto-mode-alist
       (append '(
		("\\.vhdl$"	  . fundamental-mode)
		) auto-mode-alist))

But, I have to say, I found vhdl mode to be a real time saver.