Re: about auto-mode-alist

[Billy O'Connor]

step <fxlzju@gmail.com> writes:

>   hi,i use gnu emacs23 ,when i set the auto-mode-alist, it seems don't
> work.
>   the elisp i add in the my .emacs file follow:
>    (setq auto-mode-alist
>   (append '(("\\.css\\'"  . css-mode)
>             ("\\.c\\'"    . c-mode)
>             ("\\.cc\\'"   . c++-mode)
>             ("\\.cpp\\'"  . c++-mode)
>             ("\\.cxx\\'"  . c++-mode)
>             ("\\.hpp\\'"  . c++-mode)
>             ("\\.e\\'"    . eiffel-mode)
>             ("\\.hxx\\'"  . c++-mode)
>             ("\\.h\\'"    . c-mode)
>             ("\\.hh\\'"   . c++-mode)
>             ("\\.idl\\'"  . c++-mode)
>             ("\\.ipp\\'"  . c++-mode)
>             ("\\.java\\'" . java-mode)
>             ("\\.lua\\'"   . lua-mode)
>             ("\\.pl\\'"   . perl-mode)
>             ("\\.pm\\'"   . perl-mode)
>             ("\\.rb\\'"   . ruby-mode)
>             ("\\.rbw\\'"  . ruby-mode)
>             ("\\.t2t\\'"  . t2t-mode)
>           ("\\.txt\\'"  . text-mode)
>             ("\\.py\\'"   . python-mode)
>           ("\\.tex\\'"  . LaTeX-mode)
>           ("\\.\\(xml\\|xsl\\|rng\\|xhtml\\)\\'" . nxml-mode)
>           )
>       auto-mode-alist))
>    when i use the C-x C-f create a new .xml file ,it can auto load to
> nxml-mode ,but if i open a exist .xml file ,it auto load to sgml-mode
> which is the default mode emacs set in the file.el .
>    is there somebody konw why? thanks!

Your code works for my xml files, both old and new.  Could you have mode
tags at the top of some xml files that are forcing xml mode?

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Billy O'Connor