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Asked: May 28, 20262026-05-28T03:57:15+00:00 2026-05-28T03:57:15+00:00

When writing shell scripts (which to my knowledge usually don’t have .* suffix), I

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When writing shell scripts (which to my knowledge usually don’t have .* suffix), I usually do something like the following

1) emacs foo
2) Type in #!/bin/sh
3) Close and reopen emacs so that the shell-script major mode is enabled

Is there any nice way so that I don’t have to do step (3)? I could bind M-x shell-script-mode to some key combination, but is there some general way to make emacs re-evaluate the mode using its standard set of rules?

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    2026-05-28T03:57:16+00:00Added an answer on May 28, 2026 at 3:57 am

    The general way to do it would be M-x normal-mode

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