=========================================================================== $NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.2 2008/04/13 22:12:56 wiz Exp $ You will need to customize your .emacs.el (or default.el) file to autoload Python mode for Emacs. For example: (setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("\\.py$" . python-mode) auto-mode-alist)) (setq interpreter-mode-alist (cons '("python" . python-mode) interpreter-mode-alist)) (autoload 'python-mode "python-mode" "Python editing mode." t) ===========================================================================