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From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: questions about gnuemacs
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Date: 31 Jan 88 18:32:31 GMT
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>> You can do things ~/.emacs with the auto-mode-alist which defines what
>> file patterns get what modes.  Look in loaddefs.el in the lisp
>> directory for Emacs.

And don't forget:

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

or whatever, which picks up all files outside of auto-mode-alist.

/jr
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