1.2 Activation

rec-mode should automatically activate when opening .rec files. To make sure files with extension .rec use rec-mode, add the rec-mode buffers need font-lock to be turned on - this is the default in Emacs².

If the file doesn’t end in .rec, make the first line of a recfile look like this:

# -*- mode: rec -*-

which will select rec-mode for this buffer no matter what the file’s name is.