Re: distinguish .h files

[Lennart Borgman]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Andrea Crotti
<andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's a bit annoying that the header files .h BUT for c++ are not
> automatically recognized (but of course understandable).
>
> I tried the following approach but it doesn't work, maybe the function
> is executed too early?
> Or what else can be the problem?
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>  (defun is-cpp-header-file ()
>    "enable c++-mode when finding classes"
>    (when (re-search-forward "class ")
>      (c++-mode)))
>
>  ;;(add-hook 'c-mode-common-hook 'is-cpp-header-file)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Please have a look at

  (info "(emacs) Choosing Modes")