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Telling Emacs about Modes and Files

To tell Emacs to go into a major mode based on a file's extension, place this in your "~/.emacs" file:

(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.java$" . java-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.cxx$" . c++-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.hxx$" . c++-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.c$" . c-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.pl$" . perl-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.pm$" . perl-mode) auto-mode-alist))
(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.txt$" . text-mode) auto-mode-alist))

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