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From: vlr@litwin.com (Vic Rice)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: c-mode without a .c suffix
Keywords: emacs c-mode C
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.020541.21410@litwin.com>
Date: 21 Apr 91 02:05:41 GMT
References: <822@llnl.LLNL.GOV> <GH6_.C@cs.widener.edu>
Organization: Litwin Process Automation
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In <GH6_.C@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes:

>In <822@llnl.LLNL.GOV>, rjshaw@ramius.llnl.gov writes:
>>How do I make gnuemacs start up in c-mode for files ending in .pcp as well
>>as .c and .h ?

>   In your .emacs file make it say:

>		(setq auto-mode-alist '(
>			("\\.c$" . c-mode) ("\\.pl$" . perl-mode)
>			("\\.pcp$" . c-mode) ("\\.h$" . c-mode)))

>   (Threw in Perl to show an example of other modes.)


You can stick the following any where in the first non-blank line of the file:
-*-C-*- or -*-Fortran-*- or whatever ...