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From: hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Appending the new stuff to the auto-mode-alist
Message-ID: <3071@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Sat, 21-Nov-87 11:48:43 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 21 11:48:43 1987
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Keywords: append, init file

In article <414@slb-sdr.UUCP> saito@slb-sdr.UUCP (Naoki Saito) writes:
>
>	Hello!  I tried to append the new stuff to the auto-mode-alist
>by putting the following line to my .emacs file.
>
>(append 'auto-mode-alist '(("\\.F$" . fortran-mode)
>			   ("\\.for$" . fortran-mode)
>			   ("\\.txt$" . text-mode)))
>
>	But in fact, this didn't work.  Of course, it's possible to put

Try:
(setq auto-mode-alist 
	(append '(("\\.F$" . fortran-mode)
		  ("\\.for$" . fortran-mode)
		  ("\\.txt$" . text-mode))
	auto-mode-alist))

The way that you did it just returns the new list, it never gets assigned
to auto-mode-alist.  I suspect that you coule switch the auto-mode-alist
and (append....) in my example to put the new stuff at the end of the list
if you wanted.
g.

George Hartzell			                 (303) 492-4535
MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
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