Re: FYI: Emacs modes

[Akim Demaille]

| Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
| > Also, I don't know what should be done to trigger the mode
| > automatically,
| 
| Generally you want something like:
| 
|   (autoload 'autoconf-mode "autoconf-mode"
|             "Major mode for editing autoconf files." t)
|   (setq auto-mode-alist
|         (cons '("\\.ac\\'\\|configure\\.in\\'" . autoconf-mode)
|               auto-mode-alist))
| 
|   (autoload 'autotest-mode "autotest-mode"
|             "Major mode for editing autotest files." t)
|   (setq auto-mode-alist
|         (cons '("\\.at\\'" . autotest-mode) auto-mode-alist))
| 
| The automatic mode logic in emacs is generally based on a regex match of
| the file name (with the -*- magic or file local variables overriding, of
| course).  You may want to fiddle with the above regexes; I don't know that
| much about the file naming conventions of autoconf and autotest files.

What you wrote is just perfect!

| It's not clear to me, for example, whether people would prefer .m4 files
| be loaded in autoconf mode or m4 mode; I'm guessing that you may want to
| mention that as something people may want to customize.

In any case, the m4 mode is dead broken.  But -*- is fine.

| \' is the emacs regex equivalent of $ without matching before any newline
| (so it does the right thing with file names containing newlines whereas $
| won't).  It's like the Perl \z.

OK.

Thanks!