Help with the impatient-mode
reddit / emacs

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tanishk56bisht · 2022-06-16 13:06

I am trying to load the impatient-mode as soon as I open an html file
on Emacs
So i added this in my config.el file
(require 'impatient-mode)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist  '("\\.html?\\' " . impatient-mode))
But it doesn't work and the browser says

Public Buffers
Enable impatient-mode in buffers to publish them.

Help me out with this please

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Sudo_Brew · 2022-06-16 16:25

Regular expressions in ELisp have some odd differences with most other
regex engines. In particular here, when you write a regex as a string
like this, you have to escape the backslashes with more backslashes.
Try this:

```
(require 'impatient-mode)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.html?\\'" . impatient-mode))
```

Edit: I've never used impatient-mode so if this isn't the issue, I'm
probably of no further help

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tanishk56bisht · 2022-06-17 07:20

Yes ill try this thanks
I actually figured it out how to make it work
I wrote
(add-hook 'web-mode-hook impatient-mode)
And it's working just how I wanted it to
So thanks anyways I'll try out your method as well

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Sudo_Brew · 2022-06-17 13:43

Great solution! That way is possibly even better than just running on
html files

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tanishk56bisht · 2022-06-17 13:44

Yess
Thanks