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From: ford@kenobi.UUCP (Mike Ditto)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: auto-execute
Message-ID: <70@kenobi.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 88 19:40:59 GMT
References: <270@litp.UUCP>
Organization: Omnicron Data Systems,  P.O. Box 1721,  Bonita, California
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In-reply-to: fxtv@litp.UUCP's message of 7 Apr 88 09:14:31 GMT

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.10 of Fri Oct  2 1987 on kenobi (usg-unix-v)


In article <270@litp.UUCP> fxtv@litp.UUCP (VAILLANT) asks:

> How to translate the Gosling emacs form in Gnu emacs?
>
> (auto-execute "electric-c-mode" "*.c")

Set the variable auto-mode-alist.

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.

For example, here's an excerpt of my auto-mode-alist's value:
(("\\.text$" . text-mode)
 ("\\.c$" . c-mode)
 ("\\.h$" . c-mode)
 ("\\.el$" . emacs-lisp-mode))

You want to do something like:

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.c$" . electric-c-mode) auto-mode-alist))

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