Question

I use emacs for editing my sql code. I work 99% of time on postgresql plpgsql code. All my files with extension .sql contain postgresql. I’m curious is there a way to set sql-highlight-postgres-keywords SQL highlighting default instead of ANSI SQL, because it’s pretty annoying to switch mode every time I open a file.

Answer 1

Usually in emacs, if you want to change the settings every time some mode is opened, you use a hook. Something similar to this should work:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
             '("\\.psql$" . (lambda ()
                              (sql-mode)
                              (sql-highlight-postgres-keywords))))