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From: wohler@milk1.istc.sri.com..istc.sri.com (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Appending the new stuff to the auto-mode-alist
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 17:57:39 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 17:57:39 1987
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  you were close.  the following example from my .emacs should help.

(setq auto-mode-alist (append auto-mode-alist 
			      '(("\\.ms$" . nroff-mode) 
				("\\.me$" . nroff-mode)
				("\\.1$" . nroff-mode)
				("\\.2$" . nroff-mode)
				("\\.3$" . nroff-mode)
				("\\.4$" . nroff-mode)
				("\\.5$" . nroff-mode)
				("\\.8$" . nroff-mode))))