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Re: Ignoring unknown mode `GNUmakefile-mode'
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Joost Kremers |
Subject: |
Re: Ignoring unknown mode `GNUmakefile-mode' |
Date: |
27 Jun 2016 09:56:59 GMT |
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Dan Hitt wrote:
> I have a file whose name is not 'makefile', nor 'Makefile', nor 'GNUmakefile'.
>
> If i visit it using emacs (v 24.5.1, xubuntu 16.04), the modeline
> correctly indicates GNUmakefile.
>
> But if i add
> # -*- GNUmakefile -*-
> at the top of the file, i get a message:
> Ignoring unknown mode `GNUmakefile-mode'.
The name displayed in the mode line is not necessarily the actual name
of the major mode. For that, you should inspect the (buffer-local) value
of the variable `major-mode'. Do `C-h v major-mode RET` to check it out.
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