Re: [Mac-emacs-devel] Re: [Mac-emacs-users] Latest Mac OS X Emacs Source Now Available from Emacs CVS

[Andrew C. <ak...@sh...>]

> [...]  I've been setting cperl-mode like this:
> 
> (autoload 'perl-mode "cperl-mode" "alternate mode for editing Perl programs"
> t)
> 
> This doesn't work now, though. When I load a Perl file, Emacs says,
> 'File mode specification error: (error "Autoloading failed to define
> function perl-mode")'. Do you know how I might get this to work
> again?

Hi David,

Do you want to load cperl-mode instead of perl-mode automatically when
you visit a Perl file?  If so the following is probably a better way
to specify that.

(setq auto-mode-alist
      (append
       '(("\\.\\([pP]\\([Llm]\\|erl\\)\\|al\\)\\'" . cperl-mode))
       auto-mode-alist))

There's some more information on this in both the Emacs manual and
Emacs Lisp manual.

Andrew.