Re: [tlug] [X]Emacs file association (auto-mode)

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Josh" == Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> writes:

    Josh> But I don't want to have to add lines like this for each of
    Josh> my N file extensions. I would rather "strip" the .m4
    Josh> extension off of the end of the filename and let
    Josh> auto-mode-alist have at it.

Er, Josh, just how hard is it to type C-h v auto-mode-alist?  (Caveat,
theoretically this may be 21.5-specific, but I don't think so.)

auto-mode-alist
Documentation:
Alist of filename patterns vs. corresponding major mode functions.
Each element looks like (REGEXP . FUNCTION) or (REGEXP FUNCTION NON-NIL).
(NON-NIL stands for anything that is not nil; the value does not matter.)
Visiting a file whose name matches REGEXP specifies FUNCTION as the
mode function to use.  FUNCTION will be called, unless it is nil.

If the element has the form (REGEXP FUNCTION NON-NIL), then after
calling FUNCTION (if it's not nil), we delete the suffix that matched
REGEXP and search the list again for another match.

Ie, if ("\\.m4$" nil 'YOW!) doesn't do want you want, I want to hear
about it.

If it _does_ work, well, then

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