I work a lot with unix config files (i.e the files in /etc in the various linux system) that have no extension. How can I set-up my .emacs file to load conf-unix-mode on those files?
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If you mean specifically "all files in the /etc/ directory," you could add an absolute path to your auto-mode-alist:
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("/etc/.*" . conf-unix-mode))
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Thanks for your helpful suggestion. Is there a way to apply this rule to all the config files? Should I replace
"/etc/.*"with"/.*"?– RiccardoCommented Sep 4, 2015 at 22:33 -
Maybe to avoid conflicts with files with known extensions something like this would be better:
"/etc/.*/[^\.]+$".– wvxvwCommented Sep 5, 2015 at 8:14 -
@wvxvw: I tried your solution but do not seems to work as expected. I tried the approach proposed by Dan and it works better also with my change. I also added some exceptions using a similar string.– RiccardoCommented Sep 5, 2015 at 9:17
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1Well, the thing Dan suggested will match files like
/etc/ant.conf,/etc/aliases.dband so on, while what I am suggesting will only match/etc/aliasesfor example (i.e. if there is an extension, then it won't match).– wvxvwCommented Sep 5, 2015 at 9:30