Re: [vile] Recognizing '.t' files as perly

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, J. Chris Coppick wrote:

> Steven Lembark wrote:
> > Odd thing: my #!.*perl and *.pm files show up with
> > "perlmode"; *.t files don't.
> >
> >     define-majormode perlmode
> >     remove-submode perl cindent
> >     ~with define-submode perlmode
> >         preamble    "^#!.*perl"
> >         suffixes    "\\.(pm|t)$"
> >     ~endwith
> >
> > Checking modes.doc, there aren't any examples of
> > dealing with multiple suffixes for a given mode
> > (examples show mixing a preamble with a single
> > suffix "\\.pl$"). I've also tried
> >
> >     suffixes    "\\.\(pm|t\)$"
> >
> > without any luck: I keep ending up in "confmode"
> > for my perl test code.
>
> This works for me I think:
>
> define-majormode html
> ~with define-submode html
>   suf '\.\(html\|HTML\|htm\|HTM\|dodo\)$'
> ~endwith

yes - the "\|" is probably where Steven's example does not work.

When I forget where the backslashes are needed, I make a simple
example in a text file, and let the visual-matches feature show
where it's not right.  (a lot of the patterns in modes.rc are
built up that way ;-)

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