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From: john@xanth.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Some gnu questions
Message-ID: <1347@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 13:01:19 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 19 13:01:19 1987
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In article <359@esunix.UUCP>, tlastran@esunix.UUCP (Tom LaStrange) writes:
> 1. Is there an equivalent to auto-execute?  I noticed something about
>    some language hooks but nothing about how to write my own language
>    sensitive bindings, any suggestions on easy ways to execute commands
>    when certain file extensions are read?

(describe-variable 'auto-mode-alist) gives:

Documentation:
Alist of filename patterns vs corresponding major mode functions.
Each element looks like (REGEXP . FUNCTION).
Visiting a file whose name matches REGEXP causes FUNCTION to be called.

In my .emacs I have:
  ; automatically load nroff-mode on .me files, etc. (private convention)
  (setq auto-mode-alist (append auto-mode-alist
				'(("\\.me$" . nroff-mode)
				  ("^/tmp/post" . text-mode)
				  ("^/tmp/fol" . text-mode))))

Hope this helps, and thanks to <Kyle@ODU.EDU>, our resident GNU-wizard.

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