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To use markdown-mode in Emacs/XEmacs, add the following lines to
your ~/.emacs replacing "text" with your preferred markdown extension.

(autoload 'markdown-mode "markdown-mode.el"
  "Major mode for editing Markdown files" t)

(setq auto-mode-alist
  (cons '("\\.text" . markdown-mode) auto-mode-alist))

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