bug#5522: emacs does not activate c++ mode when opening a cxxtest file

[Glenn Morris]

Nil Geisweiller wrote:

> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.cxxtest$" . c++-mode) auto-mode-alist))
>
> in my .emacs and it works just fine.
>
> But it would be good if emacs could load them in C++ mode
> automatically without adding that config line.

http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=file%3A\.cxxtest%24

returns only 28 files, several of which aren't C++ code, so this does
not seem a very widely (or consistently) used extension.

Or were you asking for the type to be deduced based on the contents?