Re: [O] won't emacs kick into org mode for any file with a ".org" suffix?

[Jambunathan K]

"Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:

>   currently working my way thru the manual and section 1.3,
> "Activation", explains how to add a line to your .emacs file to
> guarantee that any ".org" file will open in org mode.
>
>   but as far as i can tell, as long as org-mode is installed, that
> will happen, anyway, won't it?  i've tested it with an empty .org file
> and i get org mode automatically.
>
>   isn't it worth mentioning that?  or am i misreading something?

It is meant for users who are using Org with a version of Emacs that is
released before 2007-11-09.  That is really an Emacs that is
half-a-decade old.

,---- C-h v auto-mode-alist
| === modified file 'lisp/files.el'
| --- lisp/files.el     2007-11-09 10:38:50 +0000
| +++ lisp/files.el     2007-11-10 17:20:37 +0000
| @@ -1964,6 +1964,7 @@ since only a single case-insensitive sea
|       ("\\.ins\\'" . tex-mode)                ;Installation files for TeX 
packages.
|       ("\\.ltx\\'" . latex-mode)
|       ("\\.dtx\\'" . doctex-mode)
| +     ("\\.org\\'" . org-mode)
|       ("\\.el\\'" . emacs-lisp-mode)
|       ("\\.\\(scm\\|stk\\|ss\\|sch\\)\\'" . scheme-mode)
|       ("\\.l\\'" . lisp-mode)
`----

>
> rday
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