Re: how to enable syntax highlighting for some shell script files?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Yuliang Wang wrote:
> 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?

Not really, unless each file has the same syntax (see below).

> Vim 
> auto detects .inputrc, but emacs doesn't.   Vim doesn't auto detect 
> .xinitrc, but emacs does.  Funny.

That's just because they have special statements to recognize those file names
in their source code that someone contributed.

...
>     2. Configure the variable auto-mode-alist. For example, you could do
>     this
>       (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.inputrc\\'" . conf-mode))

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("/\\..*rc\\'" . conf-mode))

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA