Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!maujd
From: maujd@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: auto-mode-alist bug?/question
Message-ID: <724@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 88 13:15:21 GMT
References: <25679@bbn.COM>
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Reply-To: maujd@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer)
Organization: Computer Science, Warwick University, UK
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In article <25679@bbn.COM> mesard@BBN.COM writes:
>I thought that the following in my auto-mode-alist, would match all
>filenames that begin with a dot:
>
>	("^\\." . fundamental-mode)
>
>It doesn't seem to match anything.  Bug?  Suggestions?  This is 
>GnuEmacs 18.51.5.

I don't know anything about the auto-mode-alist thing, but surely the
regular expression to match something beginning with a dot would be

	"^\."
	  ^--------only 1 backslash

>Also, would anyone care to provide a regexp that will only match filenames
>which DO NOT contain a dot.

Try

	"^[^\.]"
	 ^ ^ ^------------- \. means match a dot
	 ^ ^--------------- this means negate the match
	 ^----------------- this means start of line

Geoff.

>unsigned *Wayne_Mesard();        MESARD@BBN.COM        BBN Labs, Cambridge, MA

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