* files.el (auto-mode-alist): Add entry to `.eld` files

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 5df7713aeaa..9440baee6ad 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -294,6 +294,8 @@ startup.  Previously, these functions ignored
 
 * Changes in Emacs 29.1
 
+** Files with the '.eld' extension are now opened in 'lisp-data-mode'.
+
 +++
 ** New command 'find-sibling-file'.
 This command jumps to a file considered a "sibling file", which is
diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el
index eb1b90fc299..22fccb151cd 100644
--- a/lisp/files.el
+++ b/lisp/files.el
@@ -2797,6 +2797,9 @@ since only a single case-insensitive search through the alist is made."
      ;; .dir-locals.el is not really Elisp.  Could use the
      ;; `dir-locals-file' constant if it weren't defined below.
      ("\\.dir-locals\\(?:-2\\)?\\.el\\'" . lisp-data-mode)
+     ("\\.eld\\'" . lisp-data-mode)
+     ;; FIXME: The lisp-data-mode files below should use the `.eld' extension
+     ;; (or a -*- mode cookie) so we don't need ad-hoc entries here.
      ("eww-bookmarks\\'" . lisp-data-mode)
      ("tramp\\'" . lisp-data-mode)
      ("/archive-contents\\'" . lisp-data-mode)