Re: Octave & Emacs

[Moreno Marzolla]

Andreas Yankopolus wrote:
> I've been unable to get Octave (*.m) files to automatically start  
> octave-mode in Emacs under Ubuntu Hardy Heron. The system is already  
> adding the cons for octave mode ("\\.m$" . octave-mode) to auto-mode- 
> alist. The octave3.0-emacsen package is installed and emacs-mod.elc is  
> present. Despite this, I have to manually set *.m buffers to octave- 
> mode.
>
> Any ideas on what I should check?

Hi Andreas,

I don't know whether better solutions exist, but I am using the 
following in my /~.emacs initialization script and it works:

(autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mod" nil t)
(setq auto-mode-alist
      (cons '("\\.m$" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist))

(I'm using Ubuntu 6.06). This would be a workaround rather than a true 
solution to your problem, but anyway...

Moreno.

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