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

[Joost Kremers]

KARR, DAVID (ATTCINW) wrote:
> 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.

saving and executing M-x revert-buffer will do the trick.

or set up auto-mode-alist so that it recognises the major mode from the
extension that you give your perl scripts (if you give them a fixed extension,
that is.)


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