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Article #100075Re: bug in files.el/set-auto-mode
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1990 14:25
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1990 14:25
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Joan Eslinger writes: > In "GNU Emacs 18.52.3 of Wed Mar 8 1989 on largo(berkeley-unix) > > Automode setting is supposed to happen if -*- MODENAME -*- is in the > first non-blank line of a file, but because * is special even in > non-regexp searches if you happen to have a line like > > # Key Computer Laboratories, Inc. (KCL) - System V - Febo1989 > > as the first line, emacs will try to set the file to (non-existent) > "system" mode. I copied the above line to the top of a file, and typed "emacs -q file" and didn't get an error. The file buffer was in Fundamental mode as expected. I'm running GNU Emacs v18.52. Also, `*' is not a special character in non-regexp searches; there are no special characters in non-regexp searches. I don't know what the problem really is.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,90d6845ae00bc847 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-01-26 06:02:29 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!talos!kjones From: kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: Re: bug in files.el/set-auto-mode Message-ID: <1990Jan25.142526.26970@talos.uu.net> Date: 25 Jan 90 14:25:26 GMT References: <9001200045.AA04666@kilimanjaro.ke_.com> Reply-To: kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu Lines: 19 Posted: Thu Jan 25 15:25:26 1990