This package provides an interface to the ArchLinux package manager. Put this in your .emacs file to enable autoloading of pkgbuild-mode and auto-recognition of "PKGBUILD" files: (autoload 'pkgbuild-mode "pkgbuild-mode.el" "PKGBUILD mode." t) (setq auto-mode-alist (append '(("/PKGBUILD$" . pkgbuild-mode)) auto-mode-alist))