This worked with emacs 20.7.1 on Linux (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `("makefile\\(\\.aix\\|\\.hp\\|\\.sol\\|\\.linux\\|\\.gcc\\)\\'".makefile-mode) auto-mode-alist))
With emacs 21.3.1 on Linux I get this error for the above syntax: File mode specification error: (invalid-function (\.makefile-mode)) I had to do it this way to get it to work in emacs 21.3.1 on Linux (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.linux" . makefile-mode ) auto-mode-alist )) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.sol" . makefile-mode ) auto-mode-alist )) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.aix" . makefile-mode ) auto-mode-alist )) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.hp" . makefile-mode ) auto-mode-alist )) (setq auto-mode-alist (cons `( "makefile\\.gcc" . makefile-mode ) auto-mode-alist )) Any ideas why the first form no longer works? Thank you, Tom M. _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs