| Moreno,
Thanks for the reply. I've tried your suggestion as well as:
(autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mod" nil t)
(append ((\\.m$ . octave-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
The octave-mode cons gets attached to auto-mode-list either way. I think that there's something screwy going on with Emacs, but I don't know the guts of it well enough to troubleshoot.
Thanks,
Andreas
On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:06, Moreno Marzolla wrote: Andreas Yankopolus wrote: I've been unable to get Octave (*.m) files to automatically start octave-mode in Emacs under Ubuntu Hardy Heron. The system is already adding the cons for octave mode ("\\.m$" . octave-mode) to auto-mode- alist. The octave3.0-emacsen package is installed and emacs-mod.elc is present. Despite this, I have to manually set *.m buffers to octave- mode.
Any ideas on what I should check?
Hi Andreas, I don't know whether better solutions exist, but I am using the following in my /~.emacs initialization script and it works: (autoload 'octave-mode "octave-mod" nil t) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.m$" . octave-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (I'm using Ubuntu 6.06). This would be a workaround rather than a true solution to your problem, but anyway... Moreno. -- Moreno Marzolla EMail: address@hiddenWWW : http://www.pd.infn.it/~marzolla
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