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Re: how to enable syntax highlighting for some shell script files?
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: how to enable syntax highlighting for some shell script files? |
Date: |
Mon, 10 May 2010 02:46:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) |
Yuliang Wang <jadelightking@gmail.com> writes:
> Isn't there a way for emacs to automatically detect file types, other than
> add comment
> in each file or add items in .emacs one by one? Vim auto detects .inputrc,
> but emacs
> doesn't. Vim doesn't auto detect .xinitrc, but emacs does. Funny.
>
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> xiaweitang <jadelightking@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > My emacs does syntax highlighting for C++, latex files, and also
> .Xdefaults,
> > .xinitrc and so on. However, it doesn't do for other files like
> .inputrc and
> > /etc/conf.d/local.start.
>
> Syntax highlighting is determined by what "major mode" emacs chooses
> when it visits the file. For shell scripts starting with an interpreter
> declaration like #!/bin/bash, emacs knows which major mode to use. For
> random configuration files that are in no particular language, you might
> want to use conf-mode.
>
> To tell emacs what mode you want it to use for a particular file, you
> could do either of the following:
>
> 1. Place a special comment in the file telling emacs what major mode to
> use.
> See the emacs manual:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/
> Specifying-File-Variables.html#Specifying-File-Variables
>
> or use info (place cursor after last parenthesis and press C-x C-e):
> (info "Emacs(Specifying File Variables)")
>
> 2. Configure the variable auto-mode-alist. For example, you could do this
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.inputrc\\'" . conf-mode))
>
> Dan
>
> > My local.start file :
> >
> > # This is a good place to load any misc programs
> > # on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output)
> >
> > # disable wlan0 LED blinking
> > echo phy0assoc > `find /sys/devices/ -name iwl-phy0::assoc`/trigger
> > &>/dev/null
> >
> > # from http://my.opera.com/xliot/blog/
> > if ! test -p /lib/splash/cache/.splash; then
> > rm /lib/splash/cache/.splash &>/dev/null
> > mkfifo /lib/splash/cache/.splash
> > fi
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
----------> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html <-----------
---> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.mccaughan/g/remarks/uquote.html <---
And another reason why you should not top-post, is that avoiding it, you
would be more tempted to read the message and therefore get the answer
to your question before you send it.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__