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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Adding to auto-mode-alist
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Date: 20 Oct 88 20:39:41 GMT
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In article <11520001@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> kge@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Kevin Ewert) writes:
>I would like to add another file type to the auto-mode-alist variable
>that invokes the text-mode, but I can't seem to get the syntax right.

There may be an easier, more elegant way, but this works for me, in my
.emacs file.  Nothing here does text-mode, but you'll get the idea.

	(setq auto-mode-alist (append '(
				       ("\\.1$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.2$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.3$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.4$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.5$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.6$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.7$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.8$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.man$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.me$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.mm$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.mr$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.ms$" . nroff-mode)
				       ("\\.Z$" . z-mode)
				       ) auto-mode-alist))
-=-
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