Re: Question on auto-mode-alist

[Christian Lynbech <chl@tbit.dk>]

>>>>> ">" == W Borgert <debacle@knorke.in-berlin.de> writes:

>> I want to handle .mp files (TTCN.MP), while GNU Emacs normally has
>> assigned this extension to MetaPost files.

If you want to do something for exactly "ttcn.mp" as opposed to
something for all files ending in ".mp", then I would say it would be
legitimate to add a pattern like "ttcn\\.mp$" to `auto-mode-alist',
even if we want metapost handling to continue to work for all other
.mp files.


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