Re: How to open a file in sh-mode

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Francis Moreau wrote:
> yes that would be possible, but I fail to understand why I can't start
> emacs in a specific
> mode from the command line.
>
> IOW why can't I simply do ?
>
>      $ emacs -f sh-mode FOO

Because you are doing it in the wrong order. sh-mode will apply to the 
current buffer. Try

  $emacs FOO -f sh-mode

But ... - do you really want to do this? It means you are using a new 
eamcs instance for every file.