Chances are good that Zope isn't giving Emacs enough of a clue as to what kind of file you are editting. Emacs either needs a '.' extension that it recognizes or the file needs to contain comments that Emacs understand. You could manually enter the mode that you want when you first read the file (M-x html-mode for example) or you can do what I do. My DTML files have the following text in the first line: <dtml-comment> -*- mode: dtml; dtml-top-element: "body" -*- </dtml-comment> This automatically puts Emacs in dtml-mode, which is a Zope-ified version of html-mode. If you wanted normal html-mode (or html-helper-mode) you would need to modify the line like so. <dtml-comment> -*- mode: html -*- </dtml-comment> Python Scripts and ZSQL methods can also be modified with Emacs, but they are a little tricker, in that it is probably not a good idea to modify their headers. That's okay though, Emacs also looks at the bottom of a file for clues as to what sort of mode to use. Here are some examples from my Python Scripts and ZSQL methods (respectively). Python scripts have this at the bottom: # Local Variables: # mode:python # End: and ZSQL methods have this: -- Local Variables: -- mode:sql -- End: Yes, this does make all of my Python Scripts and ZSQL methods 3 lines longer than they have to be, but I am too lazy to type M-x sql-mode every time I want to edit a ZSQL method. By the way, being able to edit Zope objects in Emacs transparently is almost certainly my favorite Zope feature. Python is cool, XML-RPC is interesting, Acquisition is useful, but being able to hack the whole thing with Emacs via FTP is priceless. Jason "Azboklin Lirik" <azbok@hotmail.com> writes:

Ok, I have emacs21 and auto mode loading all set up with python, html and sql files.

I can load files off my local file system and it auto loads the correct mode and fontifies the buffer.

 

Also, I can use ange-ftp with regular ftp sites and it also auto loads the mode and fontifies.

 

BUT, when I access my local zope ftp server and load the files, it does not auto load the mode and fontify.  This is very very strange indeed!

 

Does anyone out there have auto mode loading working with the zope ftp server?

 

Thank you

Azbok

 

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