[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/man/major.texi

[Richard M . Stallman]

Index: emacs/man/major.texi
diff -c emacs/man/major.texi:1.9 emacs/man/major.texi:1.10
*** emacs/man/major.texi:1.9    Wed Feb 16 10:08:30 2005
--- emacs/man/major.texi        Mon Apr 11 16:39:49 2005
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  @var{mode-function}, Emacs discards the suffix that matched
  @var{regexp} and searches the list again for another match.
  
+ @vindex magic-mode-alist
+   Sometimes the major mode is determined from the way the file's text
+ begins.  The variable @code{magic-mode-alist} controls this.  Its value
+ is a list of elements of this form:
+ 
+ @example
+ (@var{regexp} . @var{mode-function})
+ @end example
+ 
+ @noindent
+ This looks like an element of @code{auto-mode-alist}, but it doesn't work
+ the same: this @var{regexp} is matched against the text at the start
+ of the buffer, not against the file name.  @code{magic-mode-alist}
+ takes priority over @code{auto-mode-alist}.
+ 
    You can specify the major mode to use for editing a certain file by
  special text in the first nonblank line of the file.  The
  mode name should appear in this line both preceded and followed by