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changeset 61465:9cc4be7413fb
(Choosing Modes): Document magic-mode-alist.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:39:49 +0000 |
| parents | 67d24aba9eeb |
| children | 0d13c2e5baa9 |
| files | man/major.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/major.texi Mon Apr 11 16:11:14 2005 +0000 +++ b/man/major.texi Mon Apr 11 16:39:49 2005 +0000 @@ -98,6 +98,21 @@ @var{mode-function}, Emacs discards the suffix that matched @var{regexp} and searches the list again for another match. +@vindex magic-mode-alist + Sometimes the major mode is determined from the way the file's text +begins. The variable @code{magic-mode-alist} controls this. Its value +is a list of elements of this form: + +@example +(@var{regexp} . @var{mode-function}) +@end example + +@noindent +This looks like an element of @code{auto-mode-alist}, but it doesn't work +the same: this @var{regexp} is matched against the text at the start +of the buffer, not against the file name. @code{magic-mode-alist} +takes priority over @code{auto-mode-alist}. + You can specify the major mode to use for editing a certain file by special text in the first nonblank line of the file. The mode name should appear in this line both preceded and followed by