RE: How to rescan for mode comment in new buffer?

[KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)]

Thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward O'Connor [mailto:hober0@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 1:07 PM
> To: KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW)
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: How to rescan for mode comment in new buffer?
> 
> > If I've created a new empty file and pasted in the header that will
> make
> > the shell and Emacs recognize it as a Perl script, what's the easiest
> > way to "refresh" it so that Emacs recognizes that it has to go into
> Perl
> > mode?  I could just manually run "perl-mode", but I'd rather a
> cleaner
> > way to do it.  Saving, killing the buffer and reloading it seems
> > excessive also.
> 
> M-x normal-mode RET
> 
> 
> HTH. HAND.
> Ted