Competing RegExp in auto-mode-alist (was: winmgr and howm)

[Sven Utcke]

Hi,

I realised that my original subject was somewhat misleading, so I
rephrased it.  The question, however, remains:

I use howm-mode <http://howm.sourceforge.jp/> to note down random
snippets of information.  By default, those files are named
<year>-<month>-<day>-<number>.howm.

So far, so well.  But unfortunately this is matched by winmgr's
default RegExp "\\.[A-Za-z]*wm$".  And, even worse, winmgr-mode can
only be switched on, but not off.  Any clever idea how to handle that
situation, short of using something like
"\\.[A-Za-gi-z]*[A-Za-np-z]*wm$"?

So what's the best way to set up auto-mode-alist?  Complicated
RegExps? Simply change the order of the RegExps?  Any other ideas?

Thanks

Sven
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