[H-GEN] emacs major modes

[Christopher Biggs]

David Wood <dwood at plugged.net.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> Hi all,
> 
> The good news:  I just signed a contract with O'Reilly to write a book
> on programming Internet e-mail.
> 
> The bad news:  I need to write it in SGML (which I've done little of)
> with an emacs major mode that they have supplied, or in M$ Word.
> 
> Does anyone know how to install a new emacs major mode?  So far, my
> attempts have been unsuccessful.
> 

There should be instructions in the .el file...

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The official way:

Assuming the mode is called sgml-mode, and defined in sgml-mode.el,
put sgml-mode.el in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp and put the following
in your .emacs:

(setq auto-mode-alist 
  (cons '("\\.sgml$" . sgml-mode) auto-mode-alist)))
(autoload sgml-mode "sgml-mode" nil t)

Then sgml-mode will be auto loaded for any files of type .sgml.

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The quick and dirty way:

Enter:

M-x load-file RET name-of-your-mode-file.el RET
C-xC-f name-of-new-file-to-create.sgml RET
M-x sgml-mode RET

Chris

p.s. Congrats.
pp.s. Welcome to hell.
ppp.s.  At least it's not a dummies book.  Then we'd have to kill you.

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