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From: ras@blade.UUCP (R.A. Schnitzler)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Need help w/ Gnu auto-mode-alist
Message-ID: <957@blade.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 21:13:27 GMT
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In-reply-to: rsnyder@hpesoc1.UUCP's message of 9 Feb 88 17:30:41 GMT

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.4 of Fri May 22 1987 on blade (berkeley-unix)


Rob Snyder (and other people) have suggested solutions such as:
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>	(cons '("\\.c" . c++-mode) auto-mode-alist))
> (setq auto-mode-alist
>	(cons '("\\.doc" . nroff-mode) auto-mode-alist))

This certainly is fine, but I find it a bit cumbersome.  Since no one
else has mentioned this, here is my simple way of doing this:

(defun auto-mode (pattern function)
  (setq auto-mode-alist
	(cons (cons pattern function) auto-mode-alist)))

(auto-mode "\\.doc" 'nroff-mode)
(auto-mode "\\.c" 'c++-mode)
etc.

By introducing the function, I make the declaration of modes more
readable, and it is conceptually easier for me to
add/delete/change/review them.


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