Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!sri-spam!milk1.istc.sri.com!wohler 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 Message-ID: <10859@sri-spam.istc.sri.com> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 17:57:39 EST Article-I.D.: sri-spam.10859 Posted: Tue Dec 1 17:57:39 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 23:23:30 EST References: <414@slb-sdr.UUCP> Sender: nobody@sri-spam.istc.sri.com Reply-To: wohler@milk1.istc.sri.com.UUCP (Bill Wohler) Organization: SRI International Lines: 12 Keywords: append, init file 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))))