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From: cedman@golem.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman)
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Subject: Re: set automatic (default) vip-mode
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Date: 25 Jan 91 06:06:39 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.022333.4987@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu> ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu (Shiping Zhang) writes:
   I want to know how to turn on vip-mode automatically when I invoke
   emacs. I don't know what I should put in the .emacs file. Thanks for
   any information.

   -ping      ping@cubmol.bio.columbia.edu

Mode is not a global variable in emacs. Rather the mode depends on the
buffer. What mode is selected for a specific buffer depends on the
name of buffer and is determined with help of the variable auto-mode-alist.
It is a list of dotted pairs of regular expressions and modes.
Whenever a new file is loaded the name is checked against each of
these regexps and the mode of the first matching regexp becomes the
mode of the buffer. You can add automatic modes to your
auto-mode-alist like this (an example from my "~/.emacs" file):

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.st$" . smalltalk-mode) auto-mode-alist))

If you only want to edit certain file types in vip mode simply add a
corresponding line to your "~/.emacs" file.

If on the other hand no regexp matches the buffer gets the contents of
the variable default-major-mode as a mode. So if you wanted this type
of behavior you would add a line like this to your "~/.emacs" file.

(setq default-major-mode 'vip-mode)

        Carl Edman


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