On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 07:43:07AM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > I didn't found anything in the Debian policy, nor in the > Debian emacs policy, and nothing in the Debian emacsen > mailing list, so: Is there anything I can do about file > extensions, that Emacs already treats as something else? > In my new package ttcn-el, I want to handle .mp files > (TTCN.MP), while GNU Emacs normally has assigned this > extension to MetaPost files. > > My current solution is, not to include the new extension > in the auto-mode-alist and just to document that users > have to put it in their .emacs, but it would be nice to > have a mechanism similar to our different MIME-handlers. > Is there something like this in Debian?
I do not think that Debian has already infrastructure for that, but you might do something as follows: create a debconf question in your package that asks a question about including an entry for .mp files in auto-mode-alist or keeping the default. The debconf script will then create a configuration file (say, /etc/ttcn-el.rc) containing the answer. Finally, this file will be read by your Emacs Lisp initialization script (in /etc/emacs/site-start.d/) and take the appropriate action. -- Rafael Laboissière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
