Robot case files have .robot extension

[ghost]

Since .txt file can be any text file not only a robot file, it is better to replace this comment statement @http://code.google.com/p/robot-mode/source/browse/trunk/robot-mode.el?r=31 --- ln 8.
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '(".txt'" . robot-mode))
it can be rewritten as
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '(".robot'" . robot-mode))

[imiric]

I'm not a fan of @madhavan020985's approach, as I prefer not using the extension for this.

Coming from Vim, I used this plugin which could identify Robot files by the file's coding. However, doing the same in Emacs triggers an "Invalid coding system robot'" message, which is understandable. Is there a way of making this work with robot-mode` anyway?

There might be a way of doing that outside of this package, but I'm a newcomer to Emacs/Lisp, so pardon my ignorance.

Thanks!

[janihur]

I have robot-mode.el in ~/.emacs.d-directory and following in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el:

(setq load-path (cons "~/.emacs.d" load-path))
(autoload 'robot-mode "robot-mode")

The first line of all my test files is:

# -*- mode: robot -*-

Now all test files open in robot mode.

[Apteryks]

This is addressed in PR e5ff714. The Robot Framework user guide says:

The recommended extension for test case files in the plain text format is .robot.

@sakari This project seems unmaintained, correct? If so, I'll go ahead and create a fork of it.