1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/modes.texi b/doc/emacs/modes.texi
index cc25d3e1e33..9014221edff 100644
--- a/doc/emacs/modes.texi
+++ b/doc/emacs/modes.texi
@@ -357,8 +357,12 @@ preferences.  If you personally want to use a minor mode for a
 particular file type, it is better to enable the minor mode via a
 major mode hook (@pxref{Major Modes}).
 
+  Second, Emacs checks whether the file's extension matches an entry
+in any directory-local @code{auto-mode-alist}.  These are found using
+the @file{.dir-locals.el} facility (@pxref{Directory Variables}).
+
 @vindex interpreter-mode-alist
-  Second, if there is no file variable specifying a major mode, Emacs
+  Third, if there is no file variable specifying a major mode, Emacs
 checks whether the file's contents begin with @samp{#!}.  If so, that
 indicates that the file can serve as an executable shell command,
 which works by running an interpreter named on the file's first line
@@ -376,7 +380,7 @@ same is true for man pages which start with the magic string
 @samp{'\"} to specify a list of troff preprocessors.
 
 @vindex magic-mode-alist
-  Third, Emacs tries to determine the major mode by looking at the
+  Fourth, Emacs tries to determine the major mode by looking at the
 text at the start of the buffer, based on the variable
 @code{magic-mode-alist}.  By default, this variable is @code{nil} (an
 empty list), so Emacs skips this step; however, you can customize it
@@ -404,7 +408,7 @@ where @var{match-function} is a Lisp function that is called at the
 beginning of the buffer; if the function returns non-@code{nil}, Emacs
 set the major mode with @var{mode-function}.
 
-  Fourth---if Emacs still hasn't found a suitable major mode---it
+  Fifth---if Emacs still hasn't found a suitable major mode---it
 looks at the file's name.  The correspondence between file names and
 major modes is controlled by the variable @code{auto-mode-alist}.  Its
 value is a list in which each element has this form,