Re: Keybinding to change Major Mode according to file type

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2020-09-21, at 09:42, Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> wrote:

> Can one use keybinding such as f2 loads the bluffer in Major Mode dependent 
> on the file type.
>
> Example:
>
>
> If I have a .texi file in whicn I have changed the major mode with 'M-x 
> org-mode'
>
> I want to press f2 to it will check the file, in my case .texi and change
> to major mode as though I keyed 'M-x texinfo-mode'

M-x normal-mode

And you can use global-set-key to bind this to f2 (although you'd have
to start with unsetting it, since it is a prefix key by default).  You
can e.g. say
M-: (global-unset-key [f2]) RET
and then
M-x global-set-key RET f2 normal-mode RET.

Hth,

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