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Re: Is this comment in my .emacs correct?
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William Payne |
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Re: Is this comment in my .emacs correct? |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:18:13 +0200 |
"Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> William Payne wrote:
> > From my .emacs-file:
> >
> > (setq auto-mode-alist
> > (append
> > (list
> > ; Must use Makefile$ and not just Makefile or you will get makefile mode
> > for
> > any
> > ; type of file in a directory with the string makefile in it
> > '("\\Makefile$" . makefile-mode) )
> > auto-mode-alist
> > )
> > )
> >
> > Is the comment correct?
>
> Almost. You do need to anchor the "Makefile" string, because the
> auto-mode-alist entries are matched against the entire file name
> (`C-h v buffer-file-name' for an example). But "$" is not the best
> anchor, because it can also match a newline in the path; that's an
> admittedly unusual case, but it'd be better and consistent with the
> other entries if you used "\\'". Also, you might want to anchor the
> beginning of the file name; but the default entries don't provide much
> guidance since there are examples with no anchor, some with just "/",
> and some with "\\(/\\|\\`\\)".
>
> (setq auto-mode-alist
> (cons '("\\(\\`\\|/\\)Makefile\\'" . makefile-mode)
> auto-mode-alist))
>
> --
> Kevin Rodgers
>
Thanks for the reply, Kevin. I wanted to make sure I load makefile-mode only
when dealing with a file named Makefile and not when the path to the file
contained the string Makefile. Your version seems to work, thanks.
/ WP
Re: Is this comment in my .emacs correct?, maddog, 2004/08/20
Re: Is this comment in my .emacs correct?, Kevin Rodgers, 2004/08/20
- Re: Is this comment in my .emacs correct?,
William Payne <=