Re: emacs or mutt ?

[Joost Kremers]

On Mon, Mar 11 2019, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 11:08:50PM +0100, Philippe Delavalade 
> wrote:
> > > The best way to do this, I think, is to use 
> > > `auto-mode-alist`. Put this in
> > > ~/.emacs.d/init.el:
> > > 
> > >    (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist 
> > >    '("mutt-[a-z0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+.*\\'" .
> > > message-mode))
> >
> > I had no file ~/.emac.d/init.el
> >
> > So I created it and wrote your line but it produces no effect.
>
> I don't know whether this is a typo, but the "normal" name is 
> ~/.emacs.d
> (you wrote ~/.emac.d).

It is a typo, indeed.

> Nevertheless...
>
> > Finally I put the line in .emacs and now I have what I want. I 
> > replaced
> > message-mode with text-mode because I don't know at all this 
> > mode but I
> > will try it later.
>
> if you have an ~/.emacs, this will take precedence, I think.

Yes, AFAIK it will. ~/.emacs is the older one of the two, and when 
~/.emacs.d/init.el was introduced, the devs didn't want to upset 
people's configs, so ~/.emacs still takes precedence.

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Joost Kremers
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