Re: mode setting question

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Thomas Lord<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I would like to set the mode AS IF the visited
> file name were "hw.c", without that actually being
> the visited file name.  That is, if the contents
> include automode foo within the buffer, use that.
> If not, consult the auto-mode-alist using hw.c
> and use that.
>
> What is the clean way to do so?

Ask here ;-)

This is a thing I have asked for several times. The code in
normal-mode should be broken up so that it is possible to ask "what
mode is the normal modes for files named nn.ext".