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From: kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Problem with rmail (maybe saveconf)
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.135040.19514@talos.pm.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 13:50:40 GMT
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Anders G|ransson writes about trouble using saveconf.el:
 > The files are there when I enter emacs BUT the buffer has 
 > forgotten which mode it was in. For exampel, if I exit emacs (with C-x C-c)
 > from Rmail-mode, then when I enter emacs again there is the file RMAIL
 > but the buffer is now in Fundamental-mode. This is not what I hoped for!
 > 
 > There must be some way to tell emacs that the mode should be
 > kept the same!

The standard way to cause a file to be visited under w particular
major mode is to add a pattern for that type of file in auto-mode-alist.
I.e.

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("RMAIL$" . rmail-mode) auto-mode-alist))

I don't know whether calling rmail-mode in this fashion will work
as expected or not.