[comp.emacs] question about setting up your own mode in gnuemacs

mayer%hplnpm@HPLABS.HP.COM (Niels P. Mayer) (08/19/87)

I have set up a mode function that is autofuncalled from the
auto-mode-alist.  I want this mode to automagically move the point to
specific section of text upon visiting the file. The problem seems to
be that find-file-noselect<f> (called by find-file<f>) runs the
mode initializations in after-find-file<f> in a save-excursion<f>.

So, is there a way to modify the position of the point in a buffer using 
a mode function that is funcalled after a lookup in the auto-mode-alist?
It seems that the save-excursion in after-find-file would prevent such
usage.

But then again, I may be attacking the problem from the wrong angle. Any
suggestions?

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