Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] Alpha Release 9.2.1 (Gianfar-2)

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Eberhard,

what does not work as expected ? Maybe I did not understand what you expect exactly ? Did you restart Alpha after putting
	set mode::Filepats(MAIL) *.mail
in the prefs.tcl file ? This is necessary because this file is read at startup.

Bernard


> Le 3 mars 2021 à 13:27, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el...@li...> a écrit :
> 
> Bernard,
> 
> I have downloaded Saiph, and that does not work as expected.  However If
> I create a file in text mode it sems to work and the indentation
> business also seems to be fixed.
> 
> Thanks, as usual.
> 
> greetings, el
> 
> On 03/03/2021 13:16, Bernard Desgraupes wrote:
>> Hi Eberhard,
>> 
>> here is a possible solution (if I understand correctly what you want
>> to achieve):
>> 
>> 1- put the following instruction in your prefs.tcl file
>>    set mode::Filepats(MAIL) *.mail
>> 
>> 2- create an empty file with this extension, for instance empty.mail
>> or whatever.mail
>> 
>> 3- then when you open this file with Alpha it is automatically in Mail
>> mode.
>> 
>> It should do the trick (I just tested it).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Bernard
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