From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/956
Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user
Subject: Re: ~/.gnus not lisp-mode by default
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 02:49:11 +0200
Organization: http://purl.org/harder/
Message-ID: <m3znvi8id4.fsf@defun.localdomain>
References: <8665y6nzwd.fsf@gmx.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138667812 9099 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:36:52 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:52 +0000 (UTC)
Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:24 2006
Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!stargate.gts.cz!news.telebyte.nl!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news-mue1.dfn.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
X-Face: ^RrvqCr7c,P$zTR:QED"@h9+BTm-"fjZJJ-3=OU7.)i/K]<.J88}s>'Z_$r;<N5ksn~%wJ@2pjF}="tV;FBsdpFarSWA<oYkZsViGf:F^SD-KXhvFxh;~]?)SWm~+u};0=x}<vOm&5J+?]yB2d]q4x8\0g7SX
User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2
 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:eYgP5vhOOA4a33GyLfw6pp6ZDRM=
Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.249.130.51
Original-X-Trace: 1029804657 dtext.news.tele.dk 87288 195.249.130.51
Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk
Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1096
Original-Lines: 12
X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1096   Tue Jan 17 17:28:24 2006
Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:956
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/956>

Patrick Drechsler <patrick.drechsler@gmx.net> writes:

> But why don't I get the correct syntax-highlighting when opening that
> file (~/.gnus) in Emacs? Typing `M-x lisp-mode' everytime calling up
> that file surely isn't the way you do it, is it?

Put

;;; -*- Mode: Emacs-Lisp; -*-

as the first line in your .gnus.  See also the node "File Variables" in
the Emacs manual for more stuff you can specify this way.