Re: Trouble getting archives to load as archives

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.07.2008 um 00:59 schrieb Davin Pearson:

> (setq auto-mode-alist
>       (cons '("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|lzh\\|zoo\\)\\'" . archive-mode)
>             auto-mode-alist))

Using

	(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|lzh\\|zoo\\)\ 
\'" . archive-mode))

should put your additions atop of the old entries. I've also seen  
statements similiar to this

        (setq auto-mode-alist
          (append
            '(("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|lzh\\|zoo\\)\\'" . archive-mode)
          auto-mode-alist)))


The documentation on auto-mode-alist emphasises:

        The extensions whose FUNCTION is `archive-mode' should also
        appear in `auto-coding-alist' with `no-conversion' coding system.

which should be fulfilled for your file types. Anyway, in my Emacsen  
I have defined in auto-mode-alist:

 ("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|lzh\\|lha\\|zoo\\|[jew]ar\\|xpi\\)\\'" .  
archive-mode)
 ("\\.\\(ARC\\|ZIP\\|LZH\\|LHA\\|ZOO\\|[JEW]AR\\|XPI\\)\\'" .  
archive-mode)

Are these too many members?

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  Pete

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