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From: ugwiles@sybil (Dale Wiles)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Automatic Mode switching
Message-ID: <3631@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: 10 Jan 89 18:07:49 GMT
References: <MBADER.89Jan9140035@deep.cs.washington.edu>
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In-reply-to: mbader@deep.cs.washington.edu (Mark P. Bader)

In article <MBADER.89Jan9140035@deep.cs.washington.edu>, mbader@deep (Mark P. Bader) writes:

>How do you add a list item to a emacs lisp variable?  (probably to
>be done in my .emacs file).

This is how I do it. I added this to my .emacs file so that when I
load in a file that ends with ".foo", EMACS enters "bar" mode.

(setq auto-mode-alist
  (append auto-mode-alist
	  (list (cons '"\\.foo$" 'bar-mode))))

Hope this helps.

BTW, where the #$@#$ does "foo" and "bar" come from? Why "foo" and why
"bar"?
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