Re: Difficulty opening a particular file

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Haines Brown <haines@engels.histomat.net> writes:

> I have no trouble having find file open .basrc, but to open .balance.bal
> consistently must be done twice, and trying to do it with a bookmark
> hangs emacs permanently. The problem seems to be in emacs
> configuration.
>
> This emacs uses as its configuration a ~/.emacs file. However, this file
> add-to-list load-library ~/.emacs.d/elist/basic.el where configuration
> for this particular emacs session is located. In that file there is a
> stanza:
>
>   (autoload 'balance-mode "balance")
>     (setq auto-mode-alist
>      (append '(("\\.bal$" . balance-mode)) auto-mode-alist))
>
> This work earlier this year, but for some reason not now. If I open 
> balance.bal manually rather than by bookmark the balance mode works
> properly.  

Perhaps you are missing the balance-mode?
Try: C-h f balance-mode RET 

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