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Octave emacs lisp gobbledy-gook
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Octave emacs lisp gobbledy-gook |
Date: |
Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:04:45 -0500 |
On 15-Jan-2005, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
| As you can probably tell from the subject, I've been frustratingly
| trying to get my xemacs editor to properly load the octave-mod.el file.
| To this point, I've managed to get the lisp file to load in emacs.
|
| This is with Fedora Core and it's emacs setup. (If there is anyone out
| there who has managed this, please let me know.) The most recent
| discussion in the archive is Aug 2004 initiated by Jon Stickel. I'm
| running 2.1.64 which is December.
|
| Part of the problem was chasing, perhaps, outdated documentation. In
| the source for 2.1.64 of the emacs subdirectory in the octave-mod.el
| file it says:
|
| To begin using this mode for all `.m' files that you edit, add the
| following lines to your `.emacs' file:
|
| (autoload 'octave-mode \"octave-mod\" nil t)
| (setq auto-mode-alist
| (cons '(\"\\\\.m$\" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist))
|
| However, both of the those commands seemed to cause errors in emacs.
Those lines are part of an Emacs Lisp string, so they contain extra
quoting for the " and \ characters. If you start the Octave mode and
then run C-h m to get help for the mode, you will see
To begin using this mode for all `.m' files that you edit, add the
following lines to your `.emacs' file:
(autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mod" nil t)
(setq auto-mode-alist
(cons '("\\.m$" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist))
I think this will work even if Emacs already defines an autoload for
you.
jwe