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Re: Some questions of a newbie
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Kai Grossjohann |
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Re: Some questions of a newbie |
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Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:37:39 +0200 |
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Cecil Westerhof <dummy@dummy.nl> writes:
> I added org-mode and nxml-mode.
> The first uses:
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org$" . org-mode))
> the second uses:
> (setq auto-mode-alist
> (cons '("\\.\\(xml\\|xsl\\|rng\\|xhtml\\)\\'" . nxml-mode)
> auto-mode-alist))
>
> Is there a reason for this, or is it just what the creator liked? If the
> second is the reason, then I prefer the first way and will change the way
> of nxml.
It is a matter of style and taste. I prefer to use add-to-list over
the setq-cons combination because it creates simpler-looking code.
(add-to-list also checks if the entry is already present, the
setq-cons combination shown there might add dupes.)
However, the two variants also differ in that the former uses $ and
the latter uses \\'. $ matches at end of line or end of string,
whereas \\' only matches at end of string.
So if you had a file named foo.org\nbla where \n stands for a newline
character, then the regex "\\.org$" would match. "\\.org\\'" wouldn't
match.
Since file names with newlines in them are rare, this difference has
little practical relevance. Yet, I can't resist to use \\' just
because it's *right* :-)
Kai
- Re: Some questions of a newbie, (continued)
Re: Some questions of a newbie, Eric Hanchrow, 2007/04/20
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Re: Some questions of a newbie, Stefan Monnier, 2007/04/25
Re: Some questions of a newbie, Cecil Westerhof, 2007/04/25
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Re: Some questions of a newbie, Karl Hegbloom, 2007/04/27