Re: Autoload a major mode

[Dieter Demerre]

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On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, [iso-8859-1] "B?nninger, Dominik" wrote:

...
> following lines in my .emacs:
> 
> (autoload 'matlab-mode "m-mode")
> (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\.m$" . matlab-mode) auto-mode-alist))
> 
> I put the file m-mode.el in the directory  .../emacs/site-lisp. When I open
> emacs with a m-file, he will return the error message:
> 
> File mode specification error: (error "Autoloading failed to define function 
> matlab-mode")
> 
> Can anyone tell me, what I did wrong?

At least you should byte-compile-file your m-mode.el file (to create the
m-mode.elc file). 

Then probably you also should invoke  update-file-autoloads within your
m-mode.el file so the mode-functions are available and *macs knows where
to find everything.

Hope this helps... (at least that's about how it works(ed) for me).

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