Isn't there a way for emacs to automatically detect file types, other than
add comment in each file or add items in .emacs one by one?  Vim auto
detects .inputrc, but emacs doesn't.   Vim doesn't auto detect .xinitrc, but
emacs does.  Funny.

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> xiaweitang <jadelightking@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > My emacs does syntax highlighting for C++, latex files, and also
> .Xdefaults,
> > .xinitrc and so on. However, it doesn't do for other files like .inputrc
> and
> > /etc/conf.d/local.start.
>
> Syntax highlighting is determined by what "major mode" emacs chooses
> when it visits the file. For shell scripts starting with an interpreter
> declaration like #!/bin/bash, emacs knows which major mode to use. For
> random configuration files that are in no particular language, you might
> want to use conf-mode.
>
> To tell emacs what mode you want it to use for a particular file, you
> could do either of the following:
>
> 1. Place a special comment in the file telling emacs what major mode to
> use.
>   See the emacs manual:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables
>
>   or use info (place cursor after last parenthesis and press C-x C-e):
>   (info "Emacs(Specifying File Variables)")
>
> 2. Configure the variable auto-mode-alist. For example, you could do this
>   (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.inputrc\\'" . conf-mode))
>
> Dan
>
> > My local.start file :
> >
> > # This is a good place to load any misc programs
> > # on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output)
> >
> > # disable wlan0 LED blinking
> > echo phy0assoc > `find /sys/devices/ -name iwl-phy0::assoc`/trigger
> > &>/dev/null
> >
> > # from http://my.opera.com/xliot/blog/
> > if ! test -p /lib/splash/cache/.splash; then
> > rm /lib/splash/cache/.splash &>/dev/null
> > mkfifo /lib/splash/cache/.splash
> > fi
>



-- 
Sincerely,
Yuliang Wang