Re: auto-mode-alist, adding two modes

[Edward O'Connor]

> I would like to get emacs to use longlines-mode *and* flyspell-mode
> for all files ending in .txt

You might want to define a derived mode in this sort of case.

Something like this should do the trick. Untested, of course.

(define-derived-mode gijs-text-mode text-mode "Gijs"
  "Major mode for editing text files.")

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.txt\\'" . gijs-text-mode))

(add-hook 'gijs-text-mode-hook 'longlines-mode)
(add-hook 'gijs-text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)